Electricity Act 1947

For the words from " For the purposes of this Act " to " under this Act " there shall be substituted—

“For the purposes of this Act, in the construction of all the enactments incorporated by this section the ' promoters ' or ' undertakers ' means an Electricity Board and ' the undertaking ' means the business carried on by such a Board, and ' the special Act' means the Electricity (Supply) Acts, 1882 to 1936 (including, as regards the North of Scotland Board, the Act of 1943), the Electricity Act, 1947, and any local enactment (within the meaning of the last named Act) applicable to any such Board”;

and for the words " the area within which the undertakers are authorised to supply electricity under any licence, order or special Act " there shall be substituted the words " in relation to the Central Authority, the whole of Great Britain except the North of Scotland District, in relation to any Area Board, the area for which that Board is for the time being established and, in relation to the North of Scotland Board, the North of Scotland District ".

For this section the following section shall be substituted :—

“31In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the expression ' local authority ' means—

(a)in England and Wales the council of a county borough, county district or metropolitan borough and the Common Council of the City of London ; and

(b)in Scotland a county or town council.”

Subsection (2) shall be omitted, and at the end of the section the following sub-section shall be added :—

“(4)If the said fund proves insufficient to defray the payments required to be made out of the fund under the last foregoing subsection, the deficit shall be made good by the Central Authority and the North of Scotland Board in such proportions as the Minister and the Secretary of State may determine”.

In subsection (1), for paragraphs (a) (b) and (c) there shall be substituted the following paragraphs—

“(a)to the owners or lessees of any other railway generating station ; or

(b)to any Electricity Board ; or

(c)to any consumer, subject to the consent of the Area Board in whose area the premises to be supplied are situated or, if they are situated in the North of Scotland District, the North of Scotland Board”;

and the words from " Provided that " to the end of paragraph (iii) shall be omitted.

In subsection (1) for paragraph (a) the following paragraph shall be substituted :—

“(a)the execution of works necessary for the generation or transmission of electricity other than works required for the replacement or renewal of works already authorised ;”

for the word " said " in paragraph (b) there shall be substituted the words " North of Scotland "; the word " or " in that paragraph shall be omitted and paragraph (c) shall be omitted ; and at the end of the said subsection (1) there shall be inserted the following words—

“Provided that if the Secretary of State is satisfied that a proposed extension of an existing generating station involves only works of a minor character he may, subject to such conditions as he may think fit to impose, authorise the Board to execute those works without the preparation of a constructional scheme”

; in subsection (3) after the words " scheme is so approved " there shall be inserted the words " or if, the scheme not having been so approved, the Secretary of State and the Minister of Fuel and Power at the request of the Board and after considering any representations by the Central Authority so direct "; in subsections (3) and (4) for the words " Electricity Commissioners " there shall be substituted the words " Central Authority "; in subsection (7) the proviso shall be omitted.

In subsection (1) for the words " Electricity Commissioners " there shall be substituted where those words occur for the first time the words " Central Authority ", and where those words occur for the second time the words " Secretary of State ", for the words " so however that " there shall be substituted the words

“Provided that

(i)in determining such prices no undue preference shall be shown to, and no undue discrimination shall be exercised against, any person or class of persons ; and

(ii)”

and for the word " may" where that word occurs for the first time there shall be substituted the word " shall ".

In subsection (1), after the words " such report " there shall be inserted the words " shall set out any direction given by the Secretary of State to the Board during that year unless the Secretary of State has notified the Board that in his opinion it is against the interests of national security to do so and ", and for subsection (2) the following subsection shall be substituted :—

“(2)The Board shall furnish to the Secretary of State and the Minister of Fuel and Power such returns, accounts and information regarding the property and activities of the Board as they may require and afford to them facilities for the verification of the information furnished in such manner and at such times as they may require.”

For Paragraph 1 the following paragraph shall be substituted: —

1The cost of production at each steam generating station operated in the year by the Central Authority shall be ascertained by calculating the following costs, charges and allowances in respect of the year—

(i)the sums expended for fuel, oil, water and stores consumed, for salaries and wages, and any contributions for pensions, superannuation and insurance of officers and servants, for repairs and maintenance and for renewals not chargeable to capital account;

(ii)sums paid as rents, rates and taxes (other than taxes on profits) and for insurance in respect of the station ;

(iii)the proper proportion of management and general establishment charges attributable to the station ;

(iv)any other expenses on revenue account attributable to the station ;

(v)interest (exclusive of interest payable out of capital) on money properly expended for capital purposes (whether defrayed out of capital or revenue) and attributable to the generating station and the plant suitable to and used for the purpose of generating electricity therein, and interest on working capital properly attributable to the station and the production of electricity therein ;

The rate of interest for the purposes of this paragraph shall be such as the Secretary of State and the Minister of Fuel and Power acting jointly may direct;

(vi)an allowance for depreciation of such amount as the Secretary of State and the Minister of Fuel and Power acting jointly may determine.

After the words " Acts incorporated therewith " there shall be inserted the words " and of the Electricity Act, 1947 and, in relation to the North of Scotland District, of the Act of 1943 "; in the definition of the expression " main" the words from " which may " to " place and " shall be omitted ; in the definition of the expression " consumers' terminals " the words " and belonging to him " shall be omitted ; and the definitions of " the Special Order " " area of supply " and " deposited map " shall be omitted ; for the definition of " Board of Trade regulations " the following definition shall be substituted :—

• “The expression ' Electricity regulations ' means any regulations made by the Minister under the Electricity Act, 1947, for securing regularity and efficiency of supply and the safety of the public.”

For this section the following section shall be substituted:—

“2The expression " Undertakers " means any Electricity Board, except that in sections twenty-one to thirty, thirty-nine to forty-nine, fifty-one to fifty-three/fifty-five and fifty-six, fifty-eight, sixty and eighty-one, the said expression does not include the Central Authority, and the said section eighty-one shall not apply to anything done or omitted to be done by the North of Scotland Board in operating a generating station”.

For this section the following section shall be substituted :—

• “The expression ' the area of supply ' means—

  (a)

  in relation to the Central Authority, the whole of Great Britain except the North of Scotland District;

  (b)

  in relation to any Area Board, the area for which the Board is for the time being established ; and

  (c)

  the North of Scotland District.”

For this section the following section shall be substituted :—

“12The provisions of this Schedule relating to the execution of works in, under, along, or across any street or part of a street not repairable by the local authority, or over or under, any railway or tramway, shall, in the case of the North of Scotland Board or any Area Board, only apply to streets, railways or tramways (if any), or parts thereof, which the Board are specially authorised to break up by any local enactment applicable to the Board, or to the breaking up of which the Minister has consented under section thirteen of the Electric Lighting Act, 1882, but save as aforesaid nothing in this Schedule shall authorise any such Board to break up or interfere with any such street, railway or tramway without the consent of the authority or person by whom it is repairable”.

For subsection (2) there shall be substituted the following subsection :

“(2)The Minister may prescribe by regulations the manner in which and the times at which any such duties are to be performed by an electric inspector and also the fees to be taken by him, and any fees taken by an electric inspector shall be paid by him to the Minister.”

In subsection (1) for the words " forthwith after commencing to supply energy under the Special Order " there shall be substituted the words " within a period of twelve months beginning with, the vesting date "; and in subsection (2) after the words " area of supply " there shall be inserted the words " or, in the case of the North of Scotland Board, at their offices most convenient to the area of supply "; and at the end of subsection (3) there shall be inserted the following words—

“Provided that a local authority shall only be entitled to require a copy of so much of any such map as relates to the area of that local authority”.