Electricity (Supply) Act, 1927

Payment by local authorities of expenses of certain alterations.

77.—Whenever a local authority on account or for the purpose of an alteration to a road or bridge—

(a) requires an authorised undertaker to alter the position or depth of underground electrical wires, mains, or other underground electrical works or the position of poles or other structures carrying electrical wires or mains or of other above ground electrical works, or

(b) requires the Board to alter the position or depth of any such underground electrical works or the position of any such above ground electrical works as aforesaid belonging to or under the control of the Board,

the expenses incurred by such authorised undertaker or by the Board (as the case may be) in complying with such requisition shall be paid to such authorised undertaker or to the Board (as the case may require) by such local authority on demand as part of the expenses of the maintenance of such road or bridge, and the amount of such expenses so to be paid to such authorised undertaker shall, in default of agreement, be fixed by the Board, and the amount of such expenses so to be paid to the Board shall, in default of agreement, be fixed by an arbitrator appointed by the Minister.