Electricity Act 1947

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”.