Electricity Act 1947

49Supply of electricity to railways.

(1)As from the vesting date, it shall be the duty of the Central Authority to provide, except in the North of Scotland District, and it shall be the duty of the North of Scotland Board to provide in that District, a supply of electricity to meet the requirements for haulage or traction of any railway undertakers, and an Area Board shall not, without the approval of the Central Authority, supply electricity to any railway undertakers for the purposes of haulage or traction.

(2)The terms and conditions on which electricity is supplied by an Electricity Board to any railway undertakers for the purposes of haulage or traction shall be determined in accordance with regulations made by the Minister and the Minister of Transport jointly, or, in the case of a supply by the North of Scotland Board, the Secretary of State and the Minister of Transport jointly, and such regulations shall make provision for securing that the charges made for any such supply and the other terms and conditions on which it is provided are such as to avoid financial loss resulting to the Electricity Board from the provision of the supply.

(3)Where electricity is supplied by an Electricity Board to any railway undertakers for the purposes of haulage or traction, the Board may enter into an agreement with the railway undertakers for the use of that supply, on such terms and conditions as may be agreed, for any other purposes for which electricity may be required by the railway undertakers :

Provided that an Area Board shall not make an agreement under this subsection which involves the use of the supply outside the area of that Board, unless the agreement has been approved by the Central Authority.

(4)The Central Authority may, with the approval of the North of Scotland Board, provide in the North of Scotland District a supply of electricity to railway undertakers under this section, and a supply provided by the Central Authority outside the said District may, with the like approval, be used in that District.

(5)The North of Scotland Board may, with the approval of the Central Authority, provide outside the North of Scotland District a supply of electricity to railway undertakers under this section, and a supply provided by the North of Scotland Board in the said District may, with the like approval, be used outside that District.

(6)Where an Area Board provide within their area, with the approval of the Central Authority, a supply of electricity to any railway undertakers under this section, that supply may be used outside the area of the Area Board:

Provided that any such supply of electricity shall not be used in the North of Scotland District without the approval of the North of Scotland Board.

(7)Without prejudice to any other enactment providing for the protection of telegraphic lines belonging to or used by the Postmaster General, any electricity supplied under this section to any railway undertakers shall be used in such manner as not to cause, or to be likely to cause, any interference (whether by induction or otherwise) with any such telegraphic line, or with telegraphic communication by means of any such line.

In this subsection the expression " telegraphic line " has the same meaning as in the [41 & 42 Vict. c. 76.] Telegraph Act, 1878.