New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ENERGY AND UTILITIES ADMINISTRATION ACT 1987 - SECT 27

27 Minister’s powers in respect of state of emergency

(1) If an order is in force under section 26 in respect of a form of energy or energy resources, the Minister may, by notice in writing:

(a) give such directions as are necessary to control, direct, restrict or prohibit the sale, supply, use or consumption of that form of energy or energy resources,

(b) direct a person who extracts, produces, provides, supplies, transports or distributes that form of energy or energy resources to extract it for or provide, supply, transport or distribute it to a person specified in the direction,

(c) direct a person to comply with such terms and conditions as the Minister determines relating to the extracting, producing, providing, supplying, transporting or distributing of that form of energy or energy resources,

(d) direct that a person to whom that form of energy or energy resources is provided, supplied, transported or distributed accept the energy or energy resources so provided, supplied, transported or distributed, and

(e) give such direction as the Minister considers necessary to give effect to any recommendation made by a qualified person under section 28.

(2) Such a direction:

(a) may apply to or have operation throughout the whole or any specified part of the State,

(b) may, while an order referred to in section 26 is in force, operate for any period or periods or for any time or times or for any occasion or occasions specified in the direction, or

(c) may be of general operation or of specially limited operation according to any times, places, circumstances, conditions or restrictions specified in the direction.

(3) Such a notice:

(a) may be published in the Gazette and when so published any direction contained therein shall be deemed to have been sufficiently served on or brought to the notice of all persons concerned or affected by it, and

(b) may, without affecting the provisions of paragraph (a), where it applies to any particular person, be served on the person by delivering a copy thereof to the person by hand, or by sending a copy to the person by post or telegram.