Newcastle Gas Company Limited Act 1971 (NSW)

NEWCASTLE GAS COMPANY LIMITED ACT.

ANNO VICESIMO

ELIZABETHS H BEGINS

Act No. 26, 1971.

A n Act to alter the nam e o f the body politic and corporate incorporated by the City o f Newcastle G as and Coke Com pany’s Incorporation Act 1866; for tha t purpose to am end th a t A c t; and for

purposes connected therewith.	[Assented to, 27th
September, 1971.]

Newcastle Gas Company Limited.

O E it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, b	No. 26, 1971
^ and with the advice and consent of the Legislative- Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: —

1.     This Act may be cited as the “Newcastle Gas Company short title.

Limited Act, 1971”.

2. The City of Newcastle Gas and Coke Company’s Amendment

Incorporation Act 1866 is amended by inserting next after Acuo^vic.

section one the following new section :— New sec. i a.

1a. (1) As from the commencement of the New-change of

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(a)

the name of the body politic and corporate pSrate.*̂" the “Newcastle Gas Company Limited” ;

(b) a reference in any Act or other instrument (including the deed of settlement referred to in this Act) to The City of Newcastle Gas and Coke Company (Limited) shall be read and construed as a reference to the Newcastle Gas Company Limited.

(2) Nothing contained in the Newcastle Gas Company Limited Act, 1971, shall prejudice or affect in any way the continuity of the body politic and corporate incorporated by section one of this Act.

(3) The alteration of name effected by sub­

section one of this section shall not—

(a) affect any property, powers, rights, authorities, duties, functions, liabilities or obligations of the body politic and corporate incorporated by section one of this Act; or

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No. 26, 1971	(b)	render defective any legal or other proceedings
instituted or to be instituted by or against body politic and corporate,

and any legal or other proceedings may be continued or commenced by or against that body politic and corporate by the name of the Newcastle Gas Company Limited that might have been continued or commenced by or against that body politic and corporate by the name of The City of Newcastle Gas and Coke Company (Limited),

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