ELECTRICITY ACT 1945 - SECT 12

ELECTRICITY ACT 1945 - SECT 12

12 .         Crossing the district of local government with transmission works

        (1)         A local government may with the consent of the Coordinator, and shall, if so required by the Coordinator, grant to a supply authority a licence, for such period as may be necessary but in any event not exceeding 21 years, authorising the construction and maintenance by the supply authority of transmission works within the district of the local government.

        (2)         The exercise by a supply authority of a licence granted to it under subsection (1) shall be deemed to be the exercise by the supply authority of a power conferred by this Act within the meaning of section 11, and the provisions of that section shall apply accordingly, and, where the supply authority does any damage to the works of the local government which has granted the licence, the local government shall be a person concerned within the meaning of section 11(1)(b).

        [Section 12 amended: No. 89 of 1994 s. 79; No. 14 of 1996 s. 4.]

[ 13.         Deleted: No. 33 of 2004 s. 10.]