Bill 20 — First Session, 20Th Legislature, 32 Elizabeth Ii the Legislative Assembly of Alberta Bill 20 Rural Gas 1Am^Ndmenti\Ct, 1^83 Wrsr^Hpps (Legislature 20, Session 1)

L20 S1 3641

Alberta — Bills

1983 BILL 20 First Session, 20th Legislature, 32 Elizabeth II THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ALBERTA BILL 20 RURAL GAS 1AM^NDMENTI\CT, 1^83 WRSr^HPPS First Reading Second Reading Committee of the Whole Third Reading Royal Assent

Bill 20 Mrs. Cripps BILL 20 1983 RURAL GAS AMENDMENT ACT, 1983 (Assented to , 1983) HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1 The Rural Gas Act is amended by this Act. 2

Section 1 is amended by repealing clause (a). 3 The following is added after

section 3(j): (j.

l) prescribing the conditions under which a distributor may, with the consent of the Minister, construct an extension of its rural gas utility to a consumer whose location is within the ser vice area of another distributor; 4

Section 4(l)(

b) is repealed. 5

Section 8(1) is amended by striking out "30, 31, 32, 33(3) or 35" and substituting "^l, 32, 33, 34(3), 35(3) or 36".

Explanatory Notes 1 This Bill will amend

chapter R-19 of the Revised Statutes of Alberta 1980. 2

Section 1(

a) presently reads: 1 In this Act, (a) "allowable distribution system pressure" means the maximum pressure at which rural gas distribution systems may be operated as prescribed by the appropriate licences under the Pipeline Act and by the regulations under the Gas Protection Act; 3

Section 3(

j) presently reads: 3 The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations (

j) prescribing the rights and duties of distributors in relation to the construction and operation of rural gas utilities; 4

Section 4(1) presently reads: 4(1) The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations (

a) prescribing the extra charges that a distributor may charge to consumers who decline or refuse gas service when they had an oppor tunity to obtain it at the time the rural gas utility or extension of it, as the case may be, was first constructed and who later apply for gas service from that utility or extension; (

b) requiring in any case that all extra charges referred to in clause (

a) that are received by a distributor shall be paid by the distributor to the Government or prescribing in any case the percentage of any extra charges received by the distributor that shall be paid by the distributor to the Government. 5

Section 8(1) presently reads: 8(1) Any person who contravenes

section 10, 11, 14(1), 14(2), 22, 23, 25, 30, 31, 32, 33. 34(3) or 35 is guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding $5000 and in default of payment to a term of imprisonment not exceeding 3 months. 1

Section 10(3)(

b) is amended by striking out "and whose actual or estimated rate of consumption of gas is greater than 283 000 cubic metres per year" and substituting "in accordance with the regula tions" 7

Section 27 is amended (

a) by repealing subsection (1) and substituting the following: 27(1) The Minister may purchase, construct, operate and maintain a high pressure gas pipeline that is required to bring gas from a source to a rural gas utility. (

b) in subsection (2). by adding "purchased or" after "pipeline"; (

c) by repealing subsection (3) and substituting the following:

(3) The Minister may purchase, construct, operate and main tain a meter station.

(4) The Minister may enter into an agreement in respect of any or all of the construction, operation and maintenance of a pipeUne or meter station purchased or constructed under this section. 8

Section 29(1) is amended (

a) in clause (a), by striking out "buy" and substituting "pur chase"; (

b) by repealing clause (

c) and substituting the following: (

c) operate and maintain all or any part of a rural gas utility operated at high pressure; (

c) by adding the following after clause (d): (d.

l) enter into an agreement with a distributor, agency or person for the operation and maintenance of all or part of a rural gas utility; 9

Section 34(2) is amended by adding "or consumers" after "members"

Section 10(3) presently reads:

(3) Notwithstanding subsections (1) and (2), a distributor may, with the consent of the Minister, (

a) construct an extension of his rural gas utility to a consumer who is not then in any franchise area and whose location cannot, in the opinion of the Minister, be included in the service area of the distrib utor by reason of its distance from the service area or its isolated location, or (

b) construct an extension of his rural gas utility to a consumer whose location is within the service area of another distributor and whose actual or estimated rate of consumption of gas is greater than 283 000 cubic metres per year. 7

Section 27 presently reads: 27(1) The Minister may construct, operate and maintain a high pressure gas pipeline that is required to bring gas from a distant source to the load centre of a rural gas utility.

(2) A pipeline constructed under this

section shall be owned by the Crown in right of Alberta unless transferred by the Crown to another government, agency or person.

(3) The Minister may enter into an agreement with a person for the con struction, operation or maintenance, or all of them, of a pipeline to be constructed under this section. 8

Section 29(1) presently reads: 29(1) The Minister may (

a) buy, sell and exchange gas; (

b) act as a broker with respect to the sale and purchase of gas; (

c) operate and maintain, through agents, any portion of a rural gas utility operated at pressures greater than the allowable distribution system pressure for the utility; (

d) enter into an agreement or arrangement with a distributor to pro vide customer billing services for the distributor; (

e) exercise and perform any powers or duties conferred or imposed on him by the regulations in respect of operations of, or the supply of gas to. rural gas utilities and individual taps. 9

Section 34(2) presently reads:

(2) A rural gas co-operative association may in contracting with its mem bers use its own form of gas service contract if the form of the contract has been approved by the Minister, notwithstanding that a form of gas service contract has been prescribed pursuant to subsection (I).

10 In the following provisions "or rural municipal authority" is added after "association" wherever it occurs:

section 33

section 34:

section 35

section 37 In accordance with

section 4(1) of the

Interpretation Act, this Bill comes into force on the date it receives Royal Assent.

10 This amendment makes rural municipal authorities subject to the same provisions as rural gas co-operative associations with respect to rural gas utilities. Title: 1983 (20th, 1st) Bill 20, Rural Gas Amendment Act, 1983

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Collection	Alberta — Bills
Citation	L20 S1 3641
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Language	en
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