Electricity Act 1947

General Adaptations.

Subject to any specific adaptation or modification made by this Schedule, references in any of the provisions of the Electricity (Supply) Acts, 1882 to 1936, or any other enactment (except the Electric Lighting (Clauses) Act, 1899, the Act of 1943, or any local enactment)—

(a)to any body or person authorised by any enactment or licence to supply electricity in any area (whatever expression may be used to describe such a body or person) ;

(b)to the undertaking of any such body or person ; and

(c)to any enactment or licence authorising such supply (whatever expression may be used);

shall be construed as referring only to an Electricity Board, to the business carried on by any such Board, and to any local enactment applicable to any such Board, respectively.

References in any of the provisions of the Electricity (Supply) Acts, 1882 to 1936, to those Acts, and any reference therein to one or more of those Acts, being a reference which, by virtue of the construction of those Acts as one, is to be construed as a reference to all the said Acts, shall be construed as including a reference to this Act and, as regards the North of Scotland Board, to the Act of 1943.

In their application to the North of Scotland District, the Electricity (Supply) Acts, 1882 to 1936, shall have effect with the additional modification that there shall be substituted (except in section four of the Electric Lighting Act, 1888, sections one to four, twenty-nine and thirty-nine of the Electricity (Supply) Act, 1919, and the Electricity Supply (Meters) Act, 1936) for references to the Minister or the Electricity Commissioners, references to the Secretary of State.