New South Wales Consolidated Acts

GAS INDUSTRY RESTRUCTURING ACT 1986 - SECT 3

3 Interpretation

(1) In this Act:
"Corporation" means the Energy Corporation of New South Wales constituted under the Energy and Utilities Administration Act 1987 .

(2) In this Act:

(a) a reference to a function includes a reference to a power, authority and duty, and

(b) a reference to the exercise of a function includes, where the function is a duty, a reference to the performance of the duty.

(3) Unless a contrary intention appears, expressions used in this Act have the same meanings respectively as they have in the Corporations Act 2001 of the Commonwealth.

(4) For the purposes of this Act (including the application or use for interpretative purposes by or under this Act of a provision of the Corporations Act 2001 of the Commonwealth), The Australian Gas Light Company and all gas distributors that are subsidiaries of The Australian Gas Light Company are taken to be companies within the meaning of the Corporations Act 2001 of the Commonwealth.

(5) The Act passed in 1837 entitled “An Act for lighting with Gas the Town of Sydney in the Colony of New South Wales and to enable certain persons associated under the name style and firm of ‘The Australian Gas Light Company’ to sue and be sued in the name of the Secretary for the time being of the said Company and for other purposes therein mentioned”, as amended by subsequent Acts, may be cited as the “ Australian Gas Light Company Act 1837 ”.

(6) Notes included in this Act do not form part of this Act.