Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) (No. 2) Act, 1934

Certain payments by the Board.

21.—(1) Whenever any local authority which was an authorised undertaker whose undertaking was acquired by the Board under the Principal Act has refused to pay to any person who was at any time employed by such local authority for the purposes of such undertaking or to the personal representative of any such person the whole or any part of any salary, wages, or remuneration which such local authority might lawfully have paid under sub-section (1) of section 7 of the Local Government Act, 1933 (No. 5 of 1933), the Board may, subject to the provisions of the said section 7 (so far as those provisions are applicable) and of this section, pay to any such person or personal representative the whole or any part (as the case may require) of any of such salary, wages or remuneration.

(2) The following provisions shall have effect for the purposes of the foregoing sub-section of this section, that is to say:—

(a) payment may be made to a person under that sub-section whether he is or is not, at the time of making such payment, an officer or servant of the Board;

(b) every doubt, question, or dispute which shall arise in the carrying of this section into effect shall be determined by the Minister whose determination thereof shall be final.

(3) Every local authority which was an authorised undertaker whose undertaking was acquired by the Board under the Principal Act shall, when requested so to do by the Board, furnish to the Board all information in the possession, power, or procurement of such local authority in relation to every person to whom such payment might lawfully have been made by such local authority under the said sub-section (1) of section 7 of the Local Government Act, 1933 (No. 5 of 1933)