Pursuant to section 167 of the Resource Management Act 1991, the Minister for the Environment hereby gives the following notice:
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1. Title and Commencement-(1) This notice may be cited as the Resource Management (Approval of The Lines Company Limited as Requiring Authority) Notice 2000.
(2) This notice shall come into force on the 28th day after the date of its publication in the New Zealand Gazette.
2. Interpretation-In this notice, unless the context otherwise requires, "line function services" has the meaning given to that term by section 2 of the Electricity Act 1992.
3. Approval as Requiring Authority-The Lines Company Limited is hereby approved as a requiring authority, under section 167 of the Resource Management Act 1991, for its network utility operation of undertaking line function services.
Dated at Wellington this 11th day of May 2000.
MARIAN L. HOBBS, Minister for the Environment.