Local Government (Energy Companies Accountability) Amendment Bill
Member's Bill
Explanatory Note
TBA
Local Government (Energy Companies Accountability) Amendment Bill
The Parliament of New Zealand enacts as follows:
1. Title
This Act is the Local Government (Energy Companies Accountability) Amendment Act 2021.
2. Commencement
This Act comes into force on the day after the date on which it receives the Royal Assent.
3. Principal Act Amended
This Act amends the Local Government Act 2002 (the principal Act).
4. New section 74A and cross-heading inserted
After section 74, insert:
Application of Part to energy companies
74B Port companies to be treated as council-controlled organisations in certain circumstances
(1) Sections 59, 60A and 74 apply, with any necessary modifications, to the following entities as if they were council-controlled organisations:
(a) a body corporate that carries on an electricity business (whether or not that business is its principal or only business) or a trust that is constituted for purposes which include owning or controlling, directly or indirectly, all or part of an electricity company that carries on that business; or
(b) an energy company within the meaning of the Energy Companies Act 1992
5. Consequential amendments to the Energy Companies Act 1992
(1) This section amends the Energy Companies Act 1992.
(2) Repeal section 37(4).
(3) In section 46, replace “if the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 applied to energy companies and a request for that information were made under that Act” with “under the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987”.
