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Electricity Reform Act 2000
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86 Reticulation of electricity to electricity supply distribution
extension area
(1) The Minister may, by notice in the Gazette, declare an area to be
an electricity supply distribution extension area.
(2) If the Minister declares an area to be an electricity supply
distribution extension area, the owner of each parcel of land within
the area is liable to pay to the electricity entity licensed to sell
electricity in the area a financial contribution towards the cost of
extension of electricity supply in the area.
(3) The liability under subsection (2) exists despite that an owner does
not elect to have electricity supplied by the electricity entity for
consumption on the land.
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(4) An owner and electricity entity referred to in subsection (2) may
enter into an agreement relating to the conditions on or subject to
which electricity will be supplied by the electricity entity for
consumption on the land.
(5) The balance from time to time outstanding of an amount referred to
in subsection (2) is an overriding statutory charge, within the
meaning of the Land Title Act 2000, on the parcel of land.
(6) The owner of a parcel of land who is liable as referred to in
subsection (2) must not transfer the land to another person unless
he or she has first paid to the electricity entity the amount of the
liability outstanding at the date of the transfer and, for the purposes
of calculating the liability, any amount payable in accordance with
subsection (2) becomes due and payable in full immediately before
the proposed transfer despite that, but for this subsection, it would
not become due and payable until a later date.
(7) The financial contribution referred to in subsection (2) is the amount
approved by the Utilities Commission as the owner's reasonable
share of the capital contribution required of the electricity entity by
the electricity entity licensed to operate the electricity network in the
area.
(9) In this section, parcel of land means the whole of the land the
subject of a separate certificate as to title registered under the Land
Title Act 2000.