Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

SNOWY HYDRO CORPORATISATION ACT 1997 - SECT 44

             (1)  Section 55E of the Judiciary Act 1903 continues to apply in relation to:

                     (a)  any proceedings to which the Snowy Hydro Company is a party that were started before the corporatisation date; and

                     (b)  any matter that an authorised person, by writing, certifies to be a matter in relation to which the Snowy Mountains Hydro‑electric Authority gave written instructions before the corporatisation date to the Australian Government Solicitor; and

                     (c)  any matter that an authorised person, by writing, certifies to be a matter involving a claim against the Company in respect of which the Commonwealth agreed to indemnify the Authority or has agreed to indemnify the Company;

as if the Company were a body established by an Act.

             (2)  A document purporting to be a certificate under subsection (1) is, unless the contrary is established, taken to be such a certificate.

             (3)  In this section:

"authorised person" means:

                     (a)  the Secretary to the Attorney‑General's Department; or

                     (b)  a person holding or performing the duties of a Senior Executive Service office, within the meaning of the Public Service Act 1922 , in that Department.