Amendments of the Canberra and Jervis Bay Electric Supply Regulations (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY.

Regulations 1942. No. 4.

Regulations under the Building and Services

Ordinance 1924-1938.*

J O H N S I L V E R COLLINGS, the Minister of State for the

I , Interior, in pursuance of the powers conferred by the Building

and Services	Ordinance	1924-1938, hereby make the following
Regulations.

Dated this 19th day of March, 1942.

J . S. COLLINGS

Minister of State for the Interior.

A M E N D M E N T S OF T H E C A N B E R R A A N D J E R V I S BAY

ELECTRTC S U P P L Y R E G U L A T I O N S .

1.—(1.) Regulation 6 of the Canberra and Jervis Bay Electric charges for

Supply Regulations is amended— X ? * a n d

(a) by omitting the figures and words " 4s. 6d. per m o n t h " and inserting in their stead the figures and words " 10s. 2d. per quarter " ; and

(b) by omitting the words " a m o n t h " (wherever occurring)

and inserting in their stead the words " a quar t e r " .

(2.) This regulation shall be deemed to have commenced on the

3436.—PRICE 3D.—I

" ( 3 B . ) Where electricity is supplied for sanding services at the request of any person, the charge for the supply shall be as follows:—

first day of March, 1940.

2. Regulation 6A. of the Canberra and Jervis Bay Electric Supply charges for

Regulations is amended-^ 2SSSS&i,

( a ) by inserting in paragraph (a ) of sub-regulation (2 . ) , after *c''preml8e"-

the word " l ight ing" , the words ", pther than shop

window lighting,";

(b) by inserting in that paragraph, after the word " power ",

the words " and shop window lighting " ;

(c) by inserting, after sub-regulation (3 . ) , the following snib-

regulations:—

" ( 3 A . ) For each special meter or sub-meter installed on any premises, a rental of sixpence per month shall be charged.

* Notified in the Commoniocalth Gazette on 26th March, 1942.

(a) For three phase supply to a building which is not completed or is only wired for a single phase supply to a temporary supply for the sanding machine—£1 10s. per service;

(b) For single phase supply to an untenanted

building with a complete electrical instal-

lation—10s. per bu i ld ing" ; and

(d) by inserting, after sub-regulation (4.) , the following sub-

regulation :—

" ( 4 A . ) For each special reading of a meter, a payment of five shillings shall be made by the person "at whose request the reading was made."

3. After regulation 6A. of the Canberra and Jervis Bay Electric Supply Eegulations, the following regulation is inserted:—

" 6B. The Minister may, at the request of a consumer, provide and instal on his premises an electric stove and an electric water heater (in this regulation referred to as ' a p p a r a t u s ' ) under the following conditions of hir ing:—

(a) The hiring shall be for a period of twelve calendar months certain from the date the apparatus is installed in the hirer's premises and thereafter until the hiring is deter- mined by one calendar month's notice in writing given by the hirer or the proper authority to the other, unless sooner determined in pursuance of paragraph 7 of this regulation.

(b) The apparatus shall be installed and kept in good electrical order without cost to the hirer but the cost of any repairs or replacements necessitated through any cause other than fair wear and tear shall be paid by the hirer to the proper authority on demand.

(c) The hirer agrees to pay for the hire of each electric

thereof, and each electric water heater at the rate of stove at the rate of eightpence per week or part

fourpence per week or part thereof, during the currency

of the hiring. The amount of this charge will be included in and be payable at the same time as the accounts for electricity supplied to the hirer's premises are payable.

(d) The hirer agrees to consume in each period of twelve calendar months calculated from the date the apparatus is installed a minimum number of units as follows: Electric Stove 800 units, Electric Water Heater 400 units, as registered by a separate meter for each apparatus, and, if in any such period the hirer does not consume in the apparatus such minimum number of units, the hirer agrees to pay at the rate of 1-Jd. per unit for each unit by which the number of units actually consumed as registered by the separate meter falls short of the relevant number of units for the apparatus concerned.

(e) A separate meter for registering the consumption of elec- tricity by the apparatus shall be installed without cost to the hirer.

( / ) The hirer agrees to pay on demand at any time by the proper authority the sum of Two pounds as security for the payment as they respectively become due of the hire or electricity charges and any payment due by the hirer under paragraph (6) of this regulation.

(<jr) If the hirer fails to pay as it becomes due and payable, any amount payable for the hire of the apparatus or for •electricity or if, in the opinion of the proper authority, the apparatus is being used in an improper or negligent manner or in the case of any breach of any term or con- dition hereof the proper authority may, by notice in writing sent by post to or delivered by hand at the hirer's last known place of address, forthwith and for all purposes absolutely determine the agreement and the hiring thereby constituted and thereupon the hirer shall no longer be in possession of the apparatus with the consent of the Minister, but such determination shall not discharge any pre-existing liability of the hirer to the Commonwealth.

(h) The apparatus shall not be removed from the hirer's premises without the consent in writing of the proper authority.

(j) On the termination of the hiring from any cause what- soever, the hirer shall surrender the apparatus to the proper authority and the proper authority may on such termination without notice to the hirer enter upon the hirer's premises or upon any other premises at which the apparatus may be and dismantle and remove the same.".

By Authori ty: L. F. JOHNSTON, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra