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New Plymouth City Electricity and Gas Empowering Act 1966

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Contents

Preamble

Short Title and commencement

Interpretation

Electricity and gas undertakings and accounts combined

Assets and liabilities of undertakings

Combined accounts to consumers

New Plymouth City Electricity and Gas Empowering Act 1966

Local Act		1966 No 1
Date of assent		2 August 1966

	Title

1	Short Title and commencement
2	Interpretation
3	Electricity and gas undertakings and accounts combined
4	Assets and liabilities of undertakings
5	Combined accounts to consumers

An Act to empower and authorise the New Plymouth City Council to amalgamate its electricity and gas undertakings and the separate accounts kept in respect thereof

WHEREAS it is desirable to combine the electricity and gas undertakings of the New Plymouth City Council and the separate accounts heretofore kept by the Council in respect thereof:

Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1 Short Title and commencement

(1)

This Act may be cited as the New Plymouth City Electricity and Gas Empowering Act 1966.

(2)

This Act shall be deemed to have come into force on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and sixty-six.

2 Interpretation

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—

“The Council” means the New Plymouth City Council.

3 Electricity and gas undertakings and accounts combined

(1)

The electricity and gas undertakings of the Council are hereby combined to form one electricity and gas undertaking, which is hereby declared to be a trading undertaking within the meaning and for the purposes of Part XI of the Municipal Corporations Act 1954.

(2)

The electricity and gas accounts heretofore kept by the Council are hereby combined and shall hereafter be kept as one account to be known as the Electricity and Gas Account.

4 Assets and liabilities of undertakings

All assets and liabilities of the electricity and gas undertakings of the Council shall be assets and liabilities of the electricity and gas undertaking established by this Act.

5 Combined accounts to consumers

The Council is hereby authorised to render one combined account to any consumer for electricity and gas consumed during the period for which a charge is made.

New Plymouth City Electricity and Gas Empowering Act 1966