(1) The affairs of the Corporation shall be managed by the Director-General.
(1) Except as provided by subsection (5), such staff as may be necessary to enable the Corporation to exercise its functions shall be employed under the . Public Sector Management Act 1988 (2) The Corporation may use the services of any staff or facilities of the Department. (3) The Corporation may:
(a) with the approval of the Minister, and (b) on such terms and conditions as may be approved by the Public Service Board, arrange for the use of the services of any staff or facilities of any other government department or administrative office.
(1) The Director-General may and shall, if directed to do so by the Minister, establish standing or special committees for the purpose of advising the Corporation in the exercise of its functions under this or any other Act.
(1) The objects of the Corporation are:
(a) to carry out such investigations relating to the locating and the development, extraction, provision, allocation, transportation, distribution, pricing, conservation, utilisation and conditions of supply of energy and energy resources as it considers appropriate or as the Minister directs, (b) to plan the locating and the development, extraction, provision, allocation, transportation, distribution, pricing, conservation, utilisation and conditions of supply of energy and energy resources in such manner as it considers appropriate or as the Minister directs, (c) to assist and advise, and make reports and recommendations to, the Minister in respect of matters relevant to this Act and any other Act administered by the Minister, (d) to review plans or draft plans for the development, extraction, provision, allocation, transportation, distribution, pricing, conservation, utilisation and conditions of supply of energy and energy resources prepared by any energy undertakings operating in the State, and (e) in accordance with this Act, to acquire and dispose of energy and energy resources or operations connected with the locating and the development, extraction, provision, transportation, distribution, conservation or utilisation of energy and energy resources, and (f) to promote energy conservation and measures to increase the efficiency of energy supply, transmission and use.
(1) So long as a proclamation referred to in section 24 (2) remains in force, the Governor may make a regulation:
(a) controlling, directing, restricting or prohibiting the sale, supply, use or consumption of the proclaimed form of energy, whether generally or for any purpose or purposes specified in the regulation, (b) authorising the Director-General or a person specified in the regulation to exercise such functions as to the Governor appear to be necessary or expedient to carry into effect the purposes of this section or the regulation, and in particular (but without limiting the foregoing provisions of this subsection) authorising the Director-General or that person:
(i) to control, direct, restrict and prohibit the sale, supply, use or consumption of the proclaimed form of energy, whether generally or for any purpose or purposes specified in the regulation, (ii) to direct a person who extracts, provides, supplies, transports or distributes the proclaimed form of energy to extract it for or provide, supply, transport or distribute it to a person specified in the regulation, (iii) to specify the terms and conditions on which the proclaimed form of energy shall be extracted, produced, provided, supplied, transported or distributed, (iv) to direct that a person to whom the proclaimed form of energy is provided, supplied, transported or distributed accept the proclaimed form of energy so provided, supplied, transported or distributed, and (v) to make such orders, take such measures, give such directions and do such things as are in the opinion of the Director-General or the person specified in the regulation necessary or expedient to carry into effect the purposes of this section and any regulation made under this section, or (c) generally, prescribing all such matters or things as are necessary or expedient to be prescribed for carrying into effect the purposes of this section and the regulation. (2) Any such regulation may be made before the proclamation under the authority of which it is made has taken effect, but any such regulation shall not take effect before that proclamation has taken effect.
(1) In this section: industrial matter has the same meaning as in the. Industrial Relations Act 1996 qualified person means a Member of the Industrial Relations Commission of New South Wales or other person having qualifications which the Minister considers appropriate to carry out the functions under this section of a person appointed under this section.(2) If an order is in force under section 26, the Minister may, by order published in the Gazette, appoint a qualified person to investigate any industrial matter specified or described in the order, being an industrial matter with respect to any one or more of the following:
(a) the extraction, production, provision, supply, transportation or distribution of any form of energy or energy resources in relation to which the order under section 26 is in force when the qualified person is so appointed, (b) persons engaged in the extraction, production, provision, supply, transportation or distribution of any form of energy or energy resources in relation to which the order under section 26 is in force when the qualified person is so appointed, (c) the utilisation of any form of energy or energy resources in relation to which the order under section 26 is in force when the qualified person is so appointed.
(1) A person shall not:
(a) prevent an inspector from exercising or performing any function conferred on the inspector under section 32, (b) hinder or obstruct an inspector in the exercise of any such functions, (c) refuse or fail to comply with any requirement or answer any question of an inspector, (d) furnish an inspector with information knowing that it is false or misleading in a material particular, or (e) impersonate an inspector. Maximum penalty: 10 penalty units.
(1) There is to be established in the Special Deposits Account in the Treasury a State Energy Research and Development Fund.
(1) The Corporation may delegate the exercise of any of its functions, other than this power of delegation. (2) The Director-General may delegate the exercise of any of the Director-General’s functions under this Act or any other Act administered by the Minister, other than this power of delegation. (3) The Director-General may delegate the exercise of any of the functions delegated to the Director-General by the Corporation, unless the Corporation otherwise provides in its instrument of delegation to the Director-General.
(1) The Governor may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, for or with respect to any matter that by this Act is required or permitted to be prescribed or that is necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.
(Section 9 (7))