REPUBLIC OF KIRIBATI
(No. 4 of 2010)

I assent,

Beretitenti

21 May, 2010

AN ACT TO AMEND THE PUBLIC UTILITIES ORDINANCE (Cap. 83)

Commencement:
2010

MADE by the Maneaba ni Maungatabu and assented to by the Beretitenti

1. Short Title

This Act may be cited as the Public Utilities (Amendment) Act 2010.

2. Insertion of a new section 6(1)A

The Public Utilities Ordinance is amended by inserting after section 6 (1) a new subsection (1)A as follows:

"6(1)A. Subsection (1) does not apply to electricity generated, transformed, transmitted, or distributed by solar power."
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PUBLIC UTILITIES (AMENDMENT) ACT 2010

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

The object of this Act is to restrict the exclusive right of the Public Utilities Board to supply electricity in any electricity supply area granted under section 6(1) of the Public utilities Ordinance by excluding electricity generated or transmitted by solar power from its application.

Titabu Tabane
Attorney-General
24 February 2010

CERTIFICATE OF THE CLERK OF THE MANEABA NI MAUNGATABU

This printed impression has been carefully examined by me with the Bill which passed the Maneaba ni Maungatabu on the 20th April 2010 and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said Bill.

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Eni Tekanene
Clerk of the Maneaba ni Maungatabu

CERTIFICATE OF THE SPEAKER OF THE MANEABA NI MAUNGATABU

I certify that the above Bill, was on 20th April 2010 passed by the Maneaba ni Maungatabu upon a Certificate of Urgency under section 68(3)(a) of the Constitution.

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Hon. Taomati Iuta
Speaker of the Maneaba ni Maungatabu

Published by exhibition at the Maneaba ni Maungatabu this 21 day of May 2010

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Clerk of the Maneaba ni Maungatabu