Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) Act, 1945

Generation and distribution of electricity.

10.—(1) When an approved scheme has been carried out and the hydro-electric works provided for by such scheme have been completed (with such additions, omissions, variations, and deviations as shall have been found necessary in the course of the work), the Board shall generate electricity by means of such works and shall transmit and distribute such electricity to such places and in such manner as shall, in the opinion of the Board, be requisite for making such electricity available for the purposes mentioned in the next following subsection of this section.

(2) The following provisions shall apply and have effect in relation to electricity (in this subsection referred to as the said electricity) generated by the Board in pursuance of the next preceding subsection of this section, that is to say:—

(a) the said electricity shall be used and applied by the Board for all or such one or more (as the Board shall think proper) of the purposes for which electricity (in this subsection referred to as such other electricity) generated by the Board by any other means may lawfully be used or applied by the Board;

(b) the said electricity may be so used and applied in conjunction with, in addition to, or independently of all or any such other electricity;

(c) the Board shall have and may exercise in relation to the said electricity all or any of the powers for the time being vested in the Board in relation to the transmission, distribution, supply, and sale of all or any of such other electricity;

(d) any part or, parts of any transmission system or of any distribution system for the time being owned by the Board for the transmission or distribution (as the case may be) of all or any of such other electricity may be used for the transmission or distribution of the said electricity;

(e) any part or parts of any transmission system or any distribution system constructed by the Board for the transmission or distribution (as the case may be) of the said electricity may be used for the transmission or distribution of such other electricity.

(3) For the purposes of the transmission and distribution of electricity in pursuance of subsection (1) of this section the Board shall have and may exercise all or any of the powers vested in them by the Electricity (Supply) Acts, 1927 to 1942, in relation to the transmission and distribution of electricity generated otherwise than in pursuance of the said subsection (1).