New Zealand Gazette – 1917 – No. 94

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✨ War Regulations on Energy Use



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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 94

“Electricity” means electricity used or supplied for light or
power, whether produced by steam power or by water
power.

  1. For the purpose of preventing the wasteful consumption of coal-
    gas or electricity, and for the purpose (in any locality in which both
    coal-gas and electricity are supplied to the public as alternative or
    competitive sources of light or power) of securing complete or partial
    uniformity in the restrictions imposed upon the use of each of those
    sources, it shall be lawful, notwithstanding any Act, contract, or obliga-
    tion to the contrary, for any lighting authority to impose from time to
    time such restrictions as it thinks fit upon the use of coal-gas or elec-
    tricity supplied by that authority, and any restriction so imposed may
    be at any time varied or cancelled by the lighting authority.

  2. Any such restriction may be imposed generally upon all consumers,
    or upon any class of consumers, or upon consumers individually.

  3. Any such restrictions may be imposed, varied, or cancelled either
    by notice in writing delivered or posted to the consumers, or by notice
    published in some newspaper circulating in the neighbourhood in which
    the supply of coal-gas or electricity takes place.

  4. When the lighting authority is a company, the powers conferred
    upon the company by these regulations may be exercised by the Board
    of Directors of the company, or by any manager, director, secretary,
    or other officer to whom such powers have been delegated for the time
    being by that Board.

  5. When the lighting authority is a local authority, the powers con-
    ferred upon that local authority by these regulations may be exercised
    by the Council or Board having the general control of the affairs of
    that local authority, or by any committee or officer to whom such powers
    have been delegated for the time being by that Council or Board.

  6. When the Minister in Charge is satisfied that any lighting autho-
    rity has not adequately exercised the powers conferred upon it by these
    regulations, or has unreasonably exercised those powers, the Minister
    may, in lieu of that lighting authority, exercise any powers so vested
    in it, and may impose any such restrictions as the lighting authority
    might itself have imposed, and may vary or cancel any restrictions
    whether imposed by himself or by the lighting authority. No restric-
    tions so imposed by the Minister in Charge shall be cancelled or varied
    by the lighting authority without the consent of the Minister.

  7. Every person who uses or permits the use of, or is knowingly
    concerned in the use of, any coal-gas or electricity in breach of any
    restriction imposed in pursuance of these regulations shall, whether he
    is a person to whom such coal-gas or electricity has been supplied by
    the lighting authority or not, be guilty of an offence against these regu-
    lations and shall be liable accordingly.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

By Authority : MARCUS F. MARKS, Government Printer, Wellington




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🏛️ Regulations restricting the use of coal-gas and electricity (continued from previous page)

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
5 June 1917
War Regulations, Coal-gas, Electricity, Conservation, Public Welfare
  • J. F. Andrews, Clerk of the Executive Council