EXHIBIT 99.a

                                                       OMB Number:     3235-0569
                                                       Expires: January 31, 2003

EXHIBIT A
(CORRECTED)

STATEMENT UNDER OATH OF PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICER AND PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL
OFFICER REGARDING FACTS AND CIRCUMSTANCES RELATING TO EXCHANGE ACT FILINGS

I, Laurence M. Downes, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of New Jersey
Resources Corporation, state and attest that:

   (1)   To the best of my knowledge, based upon a review of the covered reports
         of New Jersey Resources Corporation, and, except as corrected or
         supplemented in a subsequent covered report:

         -        no covered report contained an untrue statement of a material
                  fact as of the end of the period covered by such report (or in
                  the case of a report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy
                  materials, as of the date on which it was filed); and

         -        no covered report omitted to state a material fact necessary
                  to make the statements in the covered report, in light of the
                  circumstances under which they were made, not misleading as of
                  the end of the period covered by such report (or in the case
                  of a report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials, as of
                  the date on which it was filed).

   (2)   I have reviewed the contents of this statement with New Jersey
         Resources Corporation's Audit Committee.

   (3)   In this statement under oath, each of the following, if filed on or
         before the date of this statement, is a "covered report":

         -        Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September
                  30, 2001 for New Jersey Resources Corporation;

         -        all reports on Form 10-Q, all reports on Form 8-K and all
                  definitive proxy materials of New Jersey Resources Corporation
                  filed with the Commission subsequent to the filing of the Form
                  10-K identified above; and

         -        any amendments to any of the foregoing.

Date: August 12, 2002                       By: /s/Laurence M. Downes
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                                               Laurence M. Downes
                                               Chairman & Chief Executive
                                               Officer

                                            Subscribed and sworn to before
                                            me this 12 day of August 2002.

                                            /s/Kathleen M. Iannuzzi
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                                            Kathleen M. Iannuzzi
                                            Notary Public

                                            My Commission Expires:
                                            April 26, 2004

[* Separate statements to be signed by each of the Principal Executive Officer
and the Principal Financial Officer.]