New South Wales Consolidated Acts

SNOWY HYDRO CORPORATISATION ACT 1997 - SECT 4

4 Definitions

(1) In this Act:
"assets" means any legal or equitable estate or interest (whether present or future and whether vested or contingent) in real or personal property of any description, and includes:

(a) money, securities, choses in action and documents, and

(b) rights, powers, privileges and immunities (whether present or future and whether vested or contingent), except any immunity or privilege of the Crown in any capacity.

"Commonwealth" includes the Crown in right of the Commonwealth and the Government of the Commonwealth.
"Commonwealth Corporatisation Act" means the Snowy Hydro Corporatisation Act 1997 of the Commonwealth.
"corporatisation date" means the date on which the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Power Act 1949 of the Commonwealth is repealed by the Commonwealth Corporatisation Act.

Corporatisation date: 28.6.2002. See Commonwealth Gazette No S 216 of 26.6.2002.

"existing Snowy electricity transmission undertaking" means the assets and liabilities of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Authority, the Snowy Mountains Council, the Commonwealth, the State of New South Wales, the State of Victoria, or authorities of the Commonwealth or any such State, that are transferred to TransGrid by orders under this Act, the Commonwealth Corporatisation Act or the Victorian Corporatisation Act.
"existing Snowy hydro undertaking" means:

(a) the assets and liabilities of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Authority and the Snowy Mountains Council that are transferred to the Snowy Hydro Company by this Act or by the Commonwealth or Victorian Corporatisation Act, and

(b) the assets and liabilities of the Commonwealth, the State of New South Wales, the State of Victoria, or authorities of the Commonwealth or any such State, that are transferred to the Snowy Hydro Company by orders under this Act, the Commonwealth Corporatisation Act or the Victorian Corporatisation Act.

"liabilities" means any liabilities, debts and obligations (whether present or future and whether vested or contingent).
"share", in relation to a company, means a share in the capital of the company.
"Snowy Hydro Company" or "Company" means Snowy Hydro Limited.
"Snowy hydro-group company" means the Snowy Hydro Company or a subsidiary of that Company.
"Snowy Mountains Council" means the Snowy Mountains Council referred to in Part VIN of the agreement set out in Schedule 1 to the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Power Act 1949 of the Commonwealth.
"Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Authority" or "Authority" means the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Authority referred to in the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Power Act 1949 of the Commonwealth.
"Snowy park lease" means the Snowy park lease referred to in Part 6.
"Snowy water catchment" means the area comprising the following, being the area shown on the Snowy water catchment map presented to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly (by or on behalf of the Member of the Assembly who introduced the Bill for this Act) when the Bill was introduced into the Assembly, and also lodged in the Land Titles Office:

(a) the catchment of the Swampy Plain River upstream of Khancoban Pondage and the course of that river 200 metres downstream of that pondage, and

(b) the catchment of the Murrumbidgee River upstream of Tantangara Dam and the course of that river 200 metres downstream of that dam, and the Goodradigbee River catchment above the Goodradigbee River Aqueduct, and

(c) the catchment of the Snowy River upstream of Jindabyne Dam and the course of the Snowy River 200 metres downstream of the Jindabyne Dam and the catchments of the Mowamba River and Cobbon Creek above the Mowamba River Aqueduct and the Cobbon Creek Aqueduct, and

(d) the catchment of the Tumut River upstream of the Jounama Dam, and

(e) the catchment of the Tooma River above the junction of the Tooma River and Sparkes Creek.

"Snowy water licence" means the licence issued to the Snowy Hydro Company under Part 5.
"State of New South Wales" includes the Crown in right of New South Wales and the Government of New South Wales.
"State of Victoria" includes the Crown in right of Victoria and the Government of Victoria.
"transferred employee" means a person who, under Division 3 of Part 3, is taken to have been engaged as an employee of the Snowy Hydro Company.
"TransGrid" means the energy transmission operator constituted by the Energy Services Corporations Act 1995 with the corporate name of TransGrid (or, if that name is varied under that Act, the varied name).
"Victorian Corporatisation Act" means the Snowy Hydro Corporatisation Act 1997 of Victoria.

(2) For the purposes of this Act, the question of whether a body corporate is a subsidiary of another body corporate is to be determined in the same way as that question is determined under the Corporations Act 2001 of the Commonwealth.

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