Gas Undertakings Act Amendment Act 1972 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

GAS UNDERTAKINGS.

No. 16 of 1972.

AN ACT to amend section twenty-five of the Gas

Undertakings Act, 1947-1961.

[Assented to 26th May, 1972.]

RE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent

Majesty, by and with the advice and consent

of the Legislative Council and the Legislative

Assembly of Western Australia, in this present

Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the

same, as follows:—

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Gas viirgitg..

Undertakings Act Amendment Act, 1972.

(2)	In this Act the Gas Undertakings Act, 1947-	Reprinted
Vol. 17 of the

1961 is referred to as the principal Act.

Acts asapproved for

reprint, 11th

April, 1963.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act

may be cited as the Gas Undertakings Act, 1947-

No. 16.] Gas Undertakings. [1972.

amended.

Section 25 2. Section 25 of the principal Act is amended

(a)	by adding after the section number "25." the subsection designation (1); and
(b)	by adding at the end thereof the following subsections

(2) The Minister may, by notice pub- lished in the Government Gazette, declare that the provisions of this Act do not apply to a gas undertaker who is the holder of a pipeline licence granted under the Petroleum Pipelines Act, 1969, in respect of gas which is supplied or distributed through a pipeline the subject of that pipeline licence.

(3) Any notice published under sub-

section (2) of this section may

(a)	be subject to such terms and conditions as are therein speci- fied by the Minister; and
(b)	be varied or revoked by subse- quent notice so published. .