Gas Industry Restructuring Act 1986 (NSW)

Gas Industry Restructuring Act 1986 No 213

An Act to make provision with respect to the supply and consumption of gas and the regulation of gas distributors; and for other purposes.

Part 1 Preliminary

1 Name of Act This Act is the Gas Industry Restructuring Act 1986.

2 Commencement (1) Sections 1 and 2 shall commence on the date of assent to this Act. (2) Except as provided by subsection (1), this Act shall commence on such day or days as may be appointed by the Governor and notified by proclamation published in the Gazette.

3 Interpretation (1) In this Act: Corporation means the Energy Corporation of New South Wales constituted under the Energy and Utilities Administration Act 1987. (2) In this Act: (a) a reference to a function includes a reference to a power, authority and duty, and (b) a reference to the exercise of a function includes, where the function is a duty, a reference to the performance of the duty. (3) Unless a contrary intention appears, expressions used in this Act have the same meanings respectively as they have in the Corporations Act 2001 of the Commonwealth. (4) For the purposes of this Act (including the application or use for interpretative purposes by or under this Act of a provision of the Corporations Act 2001 of the Commonwealth), The Australian Gas Light Company and all gas distributors that are subsidiaries of The Australian Gas Light Company are taken to be companies within the meaning of the Corporations Act 2001 of the Commonwealth. (5) The Act passed in 1837 entitled "An Act for lighting with Gas the Town of Sydney in the Colony of New South Wales and to enable certain persons associated under the name style and firm of 'The Australian Gas Light Company' to sue and be sued in the name of the Secretary for the time being of the said Company and for other purposes therein mentioned", as amended by subsequent Acts, may be cited as the "Australian Gas Light Company Act 1837". (6) Notes included in this Act do not form part of this Act.