State Energy Commission Amendment Act 1987 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

STATE ENERGY COMMISSION

AMENDMENT ACT

No. 30 of 1987

AN ACT to amend the State Energy Commission Act 1979.

[Assented to 29 June 1987]

BE 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:—

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the State Energy Commission

Amendment Act 1987.

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Principal Act

2. In this Act the State Energy Commission Act 1979* is referred to

as the principal Act.

[*Act No. 111 of 1979 as amended by Acts Nos. 63 and 101 of 1981, 36

of 1984, 98 of 1985, and 24 of 1986.]

Commencement

3. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives

the Royal Assent.

Section 27 amended

4. Section 27 of the principal Act is amended in subsection (1) by

deleting ", pursuant to subsection (4) of section 10,".

Section 27A inserted

5. The principal Act is amended by inserting after section 27 the

section following

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27A. The Commission is empowered, either alone or together

with other persons, to

(a)	furnish technical, advisory or other services; and
(b)	provide and deal in sources and supplies of energy and energy related products and facilities,

in Australia or elsewhere, with a view to enhancing Commission revenues and to the profitable and efficient utilization of its expertise and resources. ".

Section 32 amended

6. Section 32 of the principal Act is amended in subsection (1) by

deleting "one million dollars" and substituting the following-

" $2 000 000 ".

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Section 43 amended

7. Section 43 of the principal Act is amended

(a) in subsection (1) by deleting "by the Commission in the exercise

or purported exercise of a power conferred by this Act or any

Act repealed by this Act, those works" and substituting thefollowing -

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by

(a)	the Commission, in the exercise or purported exercise of a power conferred by this Act or any Act repealed by this Act; or
(b)	any predecessor in title of the Commission, in relation to those works or other things,

those works "; and

(b)	in subsection (2), by deleting "by the Commission", in the
second place where it occurs, and substituting the following -

" to which subsection (1) applies ".

Section 83 amended

8. Section 83 of the principal Act is amended by inserting after "this

following - Act" the

" or any other Act administered by the Commission ".

Section 123 amended

9. Section 123 of the principal Act is amended by deleting subsection

(3) and substituting the subsection following

(3) Regulations made under this Act may specifically authorize

or approve

(a)	contracts or agreements to which the Commission is, or proposes to become, a party, whether for the purpose of obtaining or of furnishing a supply of energy; or
(b)	tariffs, including particular charges or charges made pursuant to by-laws; or
(c)	the doing of acts or things that are, or are of a kind, necessary to give effect to any such contract, agreement
or tariff. ".