SEPT. 6.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2503

(d) A lithograph or sketch-plan to a suitable scale showing section and block numbers and boundaries of sections and blocks, name of survey district or other district, and position of all proposed works.

(e) A description of the electric system proposed to be adopted, whether direct current or alternating current, and if the latter, the number of phases and frequency, and in either case the actual pressure of generation, transmission, and supply, and the rated output in kilowatts of the generators to be installed, also the manner in which the electrical energy will be generated (e.g., by water-power, steam, gas, or oil-engine), or if the electrical energy is to be purchased in bulk, the source and nature of such bulk supply.

(f) A statement of the extent of the electrical energy proposed to be developed in the initial installation and to be provided for in future extensions, and the use intended to be made of it.

(g) A plan, in triplicate, showing by means of a distinctly coloured border the boundaries of the proposed area of supply of electrical energy (if any), the site of the power-house and substations, the routes for the initial transmission-lines (if any), indicating all roads, rivers, telegraph and telephone lines and other electric lines, and indicating the status and tenure of all Crown and other lands proposed to be traversed.

(h) A statement of the period for which the license is desired.

(i) Plans shall be preferably in black and white and be prepared to a scale of not less then 1 in. to a mile, and should be prepared to the largest scale reasonably consistent with keeping such within the limits of foolscap size. Where that size is not practicable they shall be supplied in sections not greater than 22 in. by 30 in.

(j) All locality plans shall have the north point marked thereon, and shall contain sufficient information to enable the locality to be readily identified on a survey map.

(k) In showing the pressure at which it is proposed to operate the electric lines the following colours shall be used on all plans:—

(i) Blue to indicate extra-high pressure over 11,000 volts; and

(ii) Red to indicate extra-high pressure not over 11,000 volts; and

(iii) Yellow to indicate high pressure; and

(iv) Green to indicate medium pressure and any lower pressure.

27–03. In cases where the applicant desires to supply electrical energy to other persons and is not a local authority, or if a local authority desires to operate beyond its own boundaries, the written consent of the local authority concerned must be applied for and the local authority’s reply forwarded with the application for a license.

27–04. In cases where an Electric-power District has been constituted under the Electric-power Boards Act, 1925, the written consent of the Electric-power Board must be applied for and the Board’s reply forwarded with the application.

27–05. Before entertaining any application the Minister may require the applicant to furnish any further information which the Minister may deem relevant to the decision as to whether a license should be granted or the terms and conditions of the license.

CONDITIONS OF LICENSES.

27–11. In every license to erect electric lines the conditions prescribed by Regulations 27–12 to 27–16 (both inclusive) hereof shall be deemed to be implied, except so far as the same may be expressly negated or modified or inconsistent with the terms of the license.

27–12. (1) Any notice to be given to the licensee shall be sufficient if served personally on the licensee or (in the case of the licensee being a corporate body) delivered at the registered office or usual place of business of the licensee to a person appearing to have for the time being the control of such office, or sent by registered post letter addressed to the licensee at the postal address set out in the application for a license or any subsequent address notified by the licensee to the Minister for the purpose of this clause, and if so served shall be sufficient, notwithstanding the death or incapacity of the licensee and notwithstanding that no legal personal representative of the licensee may have been appointed, and service on any one of several licensees shall be good service on all of them.

(2) Any notice to be given on the part of the Minister shall be sufficient if given in writing signed by the Minister or by any person purporting to act on behalf of or under the authority of the Minister.

(3) Any notice to be given to the Minister shall be sufficient if given in writing delivered to or sent by registered post letter addressed to the Minister at the office in Wellington of the Minister of Public Works.

(4) Any notice sent by registered post letter shall be deemed to be served at the time when it would be delivered at its destination in the ordinary course of registered post.

27–13. (1) Without prejudice to the operation of the provisions expressly or by implication contained in the license as conditions upon and subject to which the license is granted, the licensee shall be deemed to covenant with His Majesty the King that the licensee will at all time during the continuance of the license observe, perform, and comply with all the provisions expressly or by implication contained in the license and with all regulations applicable to the circumstances.

(2) In the case of a license granted to an individual, such covenant shall be deemed to be entered into by the licensee so as to bind himself, his executors, administrators, and assigns; in the case of a license granted to two or more persons as tenants in common, so as to bind jointly and severally them and each of them, their and each of their executors, administrators, and assigns; in the case of a license granted to a corporate body, so as to bind such body, its successors, and assigns.

(3) The determination of the license, whether on the expiration of the term or by surrender or revocation or otherwise, shall not affect any liability accrued prior to such determination.

27–14. (1) Subject to the provisions of the Electric-power Boards Act, 1925, and provided the licensee shall have legal power so to do, the licensee shall, if so required, sell, either to His Majesty the King or to an Electric-power Board, the license, together with the whole or (at the option of the purchaser) any severable part of the business and undertaking of the licensee so far as it relates to or is connected with the exercise of the license, and together with all real and personal property and all rights vested in the licensee and used or engaged in connection with the business or undertaking so to be purchased (all hereinafter in this regulation referred to as “the undertaking”).

(2) The option hereby conferred shall, if exercised by His Majesty the King, relate to the whole of the undertaking, and if exercised by an Electric-power Board shall relate to so much of the undertaking as is situate within the electric-power district or outer area of such electric-power district.

(3) The said option may be exercised at any time during the currency of the license by notice in writing to the licensee signed by the Minister or executed under the common seal of the Electric-power Board (as the case may be).

(4) The price to be paid upon the purchase shall be such as may be agreed upon between the licensee and the purchaser, or, failing agreement, shall be determined by the arbitration of one arbitrator if the parties can agree upon one, otherwise of three arbitrators, or any two of them, one arbitrator being appointed by the licensee, another by the purchaser, and the third arbitrator by the other two arbitrators.

(5) The said valuation shall not include any sum in respect of the value of the goodwill of the undertaking or in respect of the value of the license for the unexpired period thereof.

(6) The date of giving and taking possession and delivery of the undertaking or so much of the undertaking as is comprised in the purchase shall be such as may be agreed upon between the licensee and the purchaser, or, failing agreement, shall be fixed by arbitration as aforesaid.

(7) On the completion of the purchase the purchaser shall be deemed to be the assignee of the licensee, and all the rights vested in the licensee shall vest in the purchaser during the remainder of the term of the license.

(8) In any case to which subsection (6) of section 318 of the Public Works Act, 1928, applies, the provisions of this regulation shall be read subject to the provisions of that subsection.

27–15. Upon the determination of the license the licensee shall thereupon, if so required by notice in writing by the Minister, remove from the ground all buildings, poles, and other erections, and all transmission-lines, plant, and machinery, and other removable equipment authorized by the license to be erected, installed, or provided, and if within twelve months after being so required the licensee fails or neglects to remove the same, then the same shall, without payment of any compensation, vest in and become the property of the Crown, and it shall be lawful for any person authorized by the Minister in that behalf to enter upon any land or premises and take possession of and remove the same or any part thereof.

27–16. Nothing in the license expressly or by implication contained shall be deemed to authorize the licensee to erect, construct, or maintain any works except subject to such conditions (not inconsistent with the regulations) as may from time to time be lawfully imposed by any Borough Council, County Council, Town Board, or other local authority within the district of which such work may be situated.