Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) Act, 1945

Purchase and sale of electricity outside the State.

32.—(1) The statutory powers of the Board to buy electricity in bulk and to re-sell it to individual consumers shall extend to and authorise the purchase by the Board of electricity in bulk from persons outside the State and the re-sale of such electricity to consumers within the State.

(2) The statutory powers of the Board to sell electricity in bulk shall extend to and authorise the sale of electricity in bulk to central or local authorities or other persons outside the State and the statutory powers of the Board to sell electricity to individual consumers shall extend to and authorise the sale of electricity by distribution to individual consumers outside the State.

(3) For the purpose of the exercise of all or any of the extended powers vested in the Board by virtue of the foregoing provisions of this section, it shall be lawful for the Board to do all or any of the following things, that is to say:—

(a) to enter into arrangements with central or local authorities and other persons outside the State;

(b) to construct or arrange for the construction of transmission systems and other works wholly or partially outside the State;

(c) to do all such things as shall be incidental or ancillary to the exercise of the said extended powers;

(d) to defray, wholly or partially, the costs and expenses incurred in the exercise of the said extended powers or the doing of anything authorised by this subsection.