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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 48

(3) Any additional annual amount as aforesaid shall cease to be payable by any consumer on the expiration of the period of the guarantee if all such amounts due by him under the guarantee have been paid to the licensee, and such consumer shall thereafter be entitled to be supplied with electrical energy at the standard rate for the time being in force.

(4) Notwithstanding any payments pursuant to subclause (1) of this regulation, the extension shall be the property of the licensee, and may be used by him for the purposes authorized by his license so long as such use does not prejudicially affect the supply of electrical energy to consumers who entered into any guarantee as aforesaid.

(5) Where, pursuant to the authority conferred by the last preceding subclause, a licensee proposes to supply any consumers other than those who have entered into a guarantee as aforesaid, he shall require each such additional consumer to enter into an agreement with him to pay at the standard rate for all electrical energy actually consumed, and also to pay an additional amount in each year during the remaining period of the guarantee calculated as if such additional consumer had been a party to the joint guarantee or had entered into a separate guarantee, as the case may be, and the amount payable by any guarantor in any year shall be adjusted accordingly.

13. If the licensee’s plant or mains are of insufficient capacity to enable a satisfactory supply of electrical energy to be given to any consumer or to any applicant for a supply the licensee shall, on being required so to do by the Minister, forthwith proceed to install such additional plant or mains of greater capacity as are required to give a satisfactory supply of electrical energy.

14. A meter rent and minimum charge may be applied by the licensee under the following conditions:—

(a) The charge for electrical energy may be altered from time to time on one month’s notice in writing to the consumers concerned, provided that the maximum charges stated in the license shall not be exceeded.

(b) A meter rent may be charged in addition to such maximum charge, but such meter rent shall not exceed 1s. a month for each meter installed.

(c) A minimum charge, minimum monthly or other periodical charge, including the meter rent (if any) for retail or wholesale supply, may be collected if required by the licensee, and shall be printed on the licensee’s conditions of supply. The minimum charge for any period shall be subject to the approval of the Minister.

15. Every consumer within any part of the licensee’s area of supply shall be entitled to a supply of electrical energy on the same terms and conditions as those on which any other consumer within such part of the area is receiving under similar circumstances a corresponding supply.

NOTICE BEFORE COMMENCEMENT.

16. (1) Before commencing any part of the work authorized by the license the licensee shall give fourteen days’ notice in writing to the Chief Electrical Engineer of the Public Works Department, and to the District Engineer of the Post and Telegraph Department of the intention so to do.

(2) Notice of all proposed alterations to the initial layout of high or extra-high pressure electric lines shall be given in writing to the said Chief Electrical Engineer, and to the said District Engineer fourteen days before commencing work on the altered layout.

(3) All notices required by this regulation shall be accompanied by a plan showing the location and pressure of all wires and cables proposed to be erected, the nature of their covering (if any), and the height of the poles to be erected, and the notice to the said Chief Electrical Engineer, under subclause (1) of this regulation, shall also be accompanied by a statement in such form as the Minister directs of the calculated strengths of all line-supports.

(4) If cables of sizes other than those mentioned in the tables of sags and tensions set out in the Schedule hereto are proposed to be used, the notice to the said Chief Electrical Engineer, pursuant to subclause (1) of this regulation, shall also be accompanied by tables giving in respect of such cables similar particulars to those given in the tables in the said Schedule.

(5) The plan or plans showing the location of the lines shall be on a white ground of durable material, and be prepared to a scale not less than 1 in. to a mile. All plans shall, wherever practicable, be supplied in foolscap size, but where that size is not practicable they shall be not greater than 22 in. by 30 in. unless they are supplied in sections not greater than 22 in. by 30 in.

(6) All locality plans shall have the north point marked thereon. In showing the pressure of the electric lines the following colours shall be used on all plans: Blue to indicate extra-high pressure over 11,000 volts; red to indicate extra-high pressure not over 11,000 volts; yellow to indicate high pressure; green to indicate medium pressure and under.

TIME OF CONSTRUCTION.

17. The licensee shall, within twelve months from the date of the license, make a substantial commencement of the work to which the license relates, and shall proceed continuously and energetically with the construction of all such work.

NOTICE OF COMPLETION AND COMMENCEMENT OF SUPPLY.

18. (1) The licensee shall, before the completion of the initial installation or any separate portion thereof, give to the Chief Electrical Engineer of the Public Works Department, and to the District Engineer of the Post and Telegraph Department at least one month’s notice in writing of the estimated date of each completion, and requesting that an inspection be made of the work.

(2) The licensee shall not use the initial installation or any portion thereof until receiving from the Minister notice in writing that the Inspecting Engineer has certified to such works or such portion thereof having been satisfactorily carried out.

(3) Applications for an inspection shall be accompanied by a plan of the lines to be inspected, setting out the details required to show routes completed and pressure of lines. Every such plan shall be in accordance with the requirements of subclauses (5) and (6) of Regulation 16 hereof.

RECORDS TO BE KEPT.

19. (1) From the date of commencement of supply the licensee, if a local authority or other public body, shall keep such records as may be necessary to supply annually to the Government Statistician such information as he may require.

(2) The electrical-supply authority shall also keep a record of each installation connected to the system, showing in a readily accessible form the names of the contractor, registered electrical wiremen in charge, and Inspectors responsible for such installation, together with all relevant dates in connection with the carrying-out and inspection of such installation.

CONTINUITY OF SUPPLY.

20. From the time when the licensee commences to supply energy in pursuance of the license, he shall maintain continuously, during the period of the day for which he has agreed with any consumer to supply energy, sufficient power for the use of all such consumers for the time being entitled to be supplied: Provided that for any purposes connected with the efficient working of the undertaking the Minister may give permission to the licensee to discontinue the supply at such intervals of time and for such periods as he may think expedient. When the supply is so discontinued public notice shall be given, when practicable, of such discontinuance, and of the probable duration thereof.

EXTENSIONS AND ALTERATIONS.

21 (1) Before commencing the extension of any lines or the erection of any new line (other than a service-line), not included in the initial layout, the licensee shall, where the extension or new line exceeds 40 chains, give at least seven days’ notice in writing to the Chief Electrical Engineer of the Public Works Department, and also to the District Engineer of the Post and Telegraph Department or his deputy, of the intention to carry out the work.

(2) The provisions of subclauses (3) to (6) of Regulation 16 hereof shall apply to notices under this regulation.

22. (1) Before commencing the alteration of any line already erected (except an alteration involving a change from single phase to two or three phase, where three phase is standard construction for the licensee’s area) the licensee shall give at least seven day’s notice in writing to the District Engineer of the Post and Telegraph Department or his deputy of the intention to carry out the work.

(2) The provisions of subclauses (3), (5), and (6) of Regulation 16 hereof, in so far as they refer to the said District Engineer shall apply to notices under this regulation.

(3) The alteration of any line includes an alteration in voltage.

23. Notwithstanding the provision of Regulation 18 hereof, the licensee may use such extensions and service-lines, provided that the work has been carried out in strict conformity with the requirements of these regulations, and further provided that in the case of high or extra-high pressure lines not less than seven days’ prior notice is given to the District Engineer of the Post and Telegraph Department of the intention to bring the lines into use.

24. For the purpose of ascertaining whether or not the extensions and service-lines comply with these regulations the Inspecting Engineer may from time to time inspect the work, and if he finds that any portion of same does not comply with such requirements the Minister may call upon the licensee to discontinue the use of such part of the work until he is satisfied that such requirements have been complied with.