ELECTRIC POWER

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22709, 23 October 1935, Page 10

ELECTRIC POWER

REGULATIONS GOVERNING SUPPLY REVISION OF LEGISLATION (From Ouk Parliamentary Reporter) WELLINGTON, October 22. The existing legislation relating to electricity will be revised and consolidated by the Public Works Amendment Bill which was introduced in the House of Representatives to-night. The Bill is designed partly in the interests of simplicity and partly to meet changes which have taken place in the industry. The principal alterations to the existing law are —(a) in a fuller definition of an electric line, making clear that it includes all generating plant; (b) in making it clear that the Government has power to refuse a licence; (c) in exempting from the necessity of obtaining separate electric line licences all those whose premises are supplied by a licensed supply authority; (d) in extending from three years to five the term for which an electric light permit may be issued; (e) in making a more detailed list of the subjects on U'hich regulations may be made under the Act; (f) in ensuring the validity of licences already issued, in so far as no special form of licence has ever been prescribed under the Act. The Bill makes more severe the penalties for wilfully damaging electric lines, and it protects the interests of a supply authority in works which it installs on a consumer's premises.