ENERGY OPERATORS (POWERS) ACT 1979

Table of Provisions

• Long Title

• 1 Short title
 
• 2 Commencement
 
• 4 Terms used
 
• 5 Application of this Act to other Acts, the law generally, and to certain Agreements
 
• 6 Application of this Act to the Crown, government departments, and local governments
 
• 28 Powers of energy operators
 
• 36 Estates and interests in land
 
• 37 Partial interests in land
 
• 38 Conveyancing by abbreviated description
 
• 39 Agreements incidental to land matters
 
• 40 Power to dispose of land
 
• 41 Planning approvals
 
• 42 Energy operator to have certain rights to water
 
• 43 Property in works
 
• 45 Claims against the energy operator for the use of land and the application of the Land Administration Act 1997
 
• 46 The power of entry, generally
 
• 47 Service of notice by post on owner or occupier
 
• 48 Rights as to entry on lands etc. in emergency
 
• 49 General powers relating to works
 
• 50 Restrictions on the exercise of the general powers
 
• 51 Alteration to works in streets
 
• 52 Street levels and widths
 
• 53 Streets broken up to be reinstated without delay
 
• 54 Duty and powers, as to vegetation causing interference
 
• 57 Distribution system emergencies
 
• 58 Energy operator may not be bound to supply
 
• 59 Energy operator may supply, with or without contract
 
• 60 Repudiation of existing contracts, and unwritten contracts
 
• 61 Agreements to supply beyond normal range
 
• 62 Charges for supply, conditions of supply, and termination of supply
 
• 63 Apportioned accounts
 
• 64 Meters
 
• 65 Metered accounts
 
• 66 Meter tests
 
• 67 Circumventing meters
 
• 67A Liability for charges, and damage to apparatus
 
• 68 Inspectors
 
• 69 Incriminating statements
 
• 74 Malicious damage
 
• 75 Unlawful damage generally
 
• 76 Unlawful entry
 
• 77 Restraint of persons
 
• 78 Persons may be apprehended
 
• 79 Obstruction of officers etc.
 
• 80 Offences generally
 
• 81 General penalty
 
• 82 Recovery of moneys
 
• 83 Prosecution expenses
 
• 84 Power to institute and conduct proceedings
 
• 85 Limitation period for offences
 
• 86 Liability of bodies corporate
 
• 87 Proof of certain matters
 
• 88 Evidence of documents issued by an energy operator
 
• 120 Energy operator to make good damage, and may be liable to pay compensation
 
• 121 Actions for damages, generally
 
• 122 Protection
 
• 123 Regulations
 
• 124 By-laws
 
• 125 Regulations or by-laws, generally
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