Electricity Act 1947

38Investigation into and modification of provisions of Act of 1943 regarding price of electricity supplied under s. 16 (1).

(1)The Minister and the Secretary of State shall, before the expiry of the tenth year after the passing of the Act of 1943, cause an investigation to be made into the working of the provisions of subsection (1) of section sixteen of that Act and of the Fourth Schedule thereto regarding the price to be charged by the North of Scotland Board for electricity supplied under the said subsection and shall cause a report of the result of the investigation to be laid before Parliament.

(2)The Minister and the Secretary of State acting jointly may, after consideration of the said report, make, by order, such alterations or modifications in the provisions aforesaid as they may think fit.

(3)An order under the last foregoing subsection shall be laid before Parliament immediately after it is made, and if either House of Parliament, within the period of forty days beginning with the day on which the order is laid before it, resolves that it be annulled, the order shall cease to have effect, but without prejudice to anything previously done thereunder or to the making of a new order.

In reckoning any such period of forty days, no account shall be taken of any time during which Parliament is dissolved or prorogued or during which both Houses are adjourned for more than four days.

(4)The Fourth Schedule to the Act of 1943 (which contains rules for the ascertainment of the price payable to the North of Scotland Board for electricity supplied under subsection (1) of section sixteen of that Act) shall be amended by the insertion in sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph 4 after the words " resultant sum " of the words " increased (except in the case of a station to the establishment of which consent was given under section two of the [9 Edw. 7. c. 34.] Electric Lighting Act, 1909, or section eleven of the Electricity (Supply) Act, 1919, after the fifth day of August nineteen hundred and forty-three) by such percentage as the Secretary of State and the Minister of Fuel and Power acting jointly may from time to time determine."