✨ Water and Electricity License Conditions




MAR. 20.]

(d) Drawings giving full particulars of any tunnels,
aqueducts, and pipe-lines used in conveying the
water from the headworks to the power-station.
(e) Drawings showing the arrangement of the generating,
switching, and transforming plant in the power-
station:

  1. UTILIZATION OF THE WATER.
    The said water shall be used under this license solely for the
    purpose of generating electricity.

  2. LOCATION OF HEADWORKS.
    The said water shall be taken from a dam situated in
    Section 52, Block I, Rock and Pillar Survey District, as
    indicated on the plan marked P.W.D. 75701 (hereinafter
    referred to as the "said plan"), deposited in the office of
    the Minister of Public Works at Wellington.

  3. GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF WORKS.
    The licensee is hereby authorized, subject to the conditions
    herein contained, to construct, maintain, and use the follow-
    ing works for the purposes of this license, the position of the
    said works being indicated on the said plan:-
    (a) Headworks consisting of dam and necessary intakes:
    (b) Pipe-line leading from such dam to the power-house
    hereinafter referred to; also tail-race from the power-
    house to irrigation works.
    (c) Power-house with all necessary equipment, including
    water-turbines, generators, transformers, lightning-
    arresters, switchboards, switches, exciters, and other
    appliances for generating electricity:
    (d) Transmission and other lines over the routes shown by
    means of green lines on the said plan:
    (e) Such further transmission and other lines within the
    premises of the licensee as may from time to time be
    required. Any extensions or alterations of lines
    pursuant to this paragraph shall be made only after
    compliance with the provisions of clauses 21, 22,
    and 23 of the regulations.

  4. MAINTENANCE OF WORKS.
    The licensee shall maintain the works used under this
    license in proper working-order during the continuance of
    such license.

  5. DURATION OF LICENSE.
    This license shall, unless sooner determined in accordance
    with the provisions hereinafter expressed, continue in force
    for a period of forty-two years from the date hereof. Upon
    the expiry of the said term, or upon the sooner determination
    of this license by revocation or otherwise, all rights hereby
    granted to the licensee shall thereupon cease and determine,
    but such expiration or determination shall not relieve the
    licensee of any liability theretofore incurred under this license.

  6. RENTAL.
    The licensee shall in respect of this license pay to the Dis-
    trict Engineer, Public Works Department, Dunedin, a yearly
    rental of 1s. per kilowatt of maximum output generated during
    each and every year from 1st April, 1929, with a minimum
    of Β£10 per annum. The output either shall be recorded by
    means of a watthour meter installed by the licensee, or, failing
    such installation, it shall be determined on the maximum
    capacity of the generating-plant installed.

  7. GRANTING OF OTHER WATER-RIGHTS.
    Nothing herein shall prevent the Governor-General in
    Council from granting to any person or body corporate other
    than the licensee a license to take water from any portion
    of the said streams, except at the place where the licensee is
    by this license empowered to take it: Provided that no
    such license shall so operate as to reduce the natural fall
    between the headworks and tail-water, or the volume of the
    water which the licensee is by this license authorized to take
    from the said streams.

  8. VARIATION IN CONDITIONS OF LICENSE.
    The terms and conditions of this license may from time to
    time, at the request or with the consent in writing of the
    licensee be altered by the Governor-General by Order in
    Council.

  9. SURRENDER OF LICENSE.
    The licensee may at any time, with the consent of the
    Minister, surrender this license, and shall thereupon remove
    from the ground (if so required by the Minister) all removable
    equipment, machinery, buildings, poles, transmission-lines,
    and other plant herein authorized to be installed or provided.
    If the licensee fails or neglects so to remove the said plant
    within twelve months after being required so to do, such

equipment, machinery, buildings, poles, lines, and other
plant shall, without payment of compensation, vest in and
become the property of the Crown.

  1. SYSTEM OF SUPPLY.
    The system of supply shall be as described in paragraph (a)
    of clause 5 of the regulations.
    The generating and transmission voltage shall be approxi-
    mately 400 volts between the terminals.

  2. RIGHT TO ENTER LANDS, ETC.
    The licensee shall have the right at any time or times
    during the continuance of this license, with the consent of
    the Minister, to enter upon any road or other land, whether
    vested in or occupied by the Crown or any other person or
    body corporate, and there to construct, erect, lay down,
    maintain, renew, or repair all such transmission-lines, poles,
    or other things as are required for the transmission of elec-
    tricity between the power-house hereinbefore referred to
    and any place to which the licensee is authorized to transmit
    electricity in pursuance of this license.

  3. POWER TO TAKE LAND.
    The licensee is hereby empowered to take, under the
    Public Works Act, 1928, as for a public work such land as
    may, in the opinion of the Governor-General, be necessary
    or advisable to enable the licensee to construct and maintain
    the various works authorized by this license.

  4. COMPENSATION PAYABLE FOR LAND INJURIOUSLY
    AFFECTED, ETC.
    In respect of all land injuriously affected, and in respect
    of all damages done by the exercise of any of the powers
    conferred upon the licensee by this license, the licensee shall
    from time to time, as and when any such injury or damage
    accrues or happens, pay compensation in accordance with
    the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1928, in the same
    manner (subject to all necessary modifications) as if the
    licensee was a local authority and the claim was one for
    injury or damage arising out of the construction of a public
    work.

  5. CROWN NOT LIABLE TO PAY COMPENSATION.
    Nothing in this license shall be held to impose any liability
    upon His Majesty the King or upon the Government of New
    Zealand to pay compensation to any person, corporate body,
    or local authority by reason of the exercise by the licensee of
    the authority hereby granted ; but the licensee shall be liable
    for any loss or damage which any person, corporate body, or
    local authority may sustain as the result of the exercise by
    the licensee of any of the powers granted by this license.

  6. BED OF STREAM NOT LEASED.
    Nothing herein shall be held to constitute a lease from the
    Crown of the beds of the rivers or streams shown on the
    said plan, nor shall the provisions of Part IX of the Property
    Law Act, 1908, apply to this license.

  7. DEFAULT.
    If the licensee fails or neglects to observe any of the con-
    ditions or obligations imposed by this license, then and in
    any such case the provisions of clauses 229 and 230 of the
    regulations shall apply to the breach of any such condition
    or obligation.

  8. ALTERATIONS TO WORKS.
    In the event of the licensee at any time desiring to make
    alterations to the works involving a departure from the location
    or type of construction shown on the approved plans, it shall
    first submit for the Minister's approval plans showing such new
    location and [or] type of construction as it is proposed to
    adopt, and with such approval the alterations may be
    carried out.

  9. INSPECTION OF WORKS.
    The Inspecting Engineer of the Public Works Department
    or any other person empowered in that behalf by the Minister
    shall at all times, both during and after the construction of
    the works, have free access to and liberty to inspect such works
    so as to ensure that the provisions of this license are given due
    effect to.

  10. CONTRACT BETWEEN LICENSEE AND CROWN.
    This license shall be deemed to constitute a contract as
    between the licensee and His Majesty the King, and may be
    enforced by and against either party accordingly.

  11. REQUIREMENTS OF OTAGO CENTRAL ELECTRIC-POWER
    BOARD.
    Notwithstanding anything hereinbefore contained, the
    licensee shall not by virtue of these presents be entitled to



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πŸ—οΈ License for Maniototo Hospital Board to Use Water and Erect Electric Lines (continued from previous page)

πŸ—οΈ Infrastructure & Public Works
18 March 1930
Water use, Electricity generation, Maniototo Hospital Board, Capburn Creek, Pigburn Creek, Public Works Act