Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1995

Review of the provision and regulation of electricity supply services in the State.

22.—(1) In this section “the Board” means the Electricity Supply Board.

(2) Whenever the Minister—

(a) carries out or causes to be carried out a review of the provision and regulation of electricity supply services in the State (including a review of the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of the performance by the Board of its functions), or

(b) participates in a review which is carried out by the Board or another person of the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of the performance by the Board of its functions,

the Minister may require the Board to pay to him or her, in such manner as he or she may determine, such sum as he or she specifies to be the sum that will defray the costs incurred by him or her in—

(i) carrying out or causing to be carried out the review concerned referred to in paragraph (a), or

(ii) participating in the review concerned referred to in paragraph (b),

and the Board shall comply with such a requirement.

(3) The payment of a sum referred to in subsection (2) shall be regarded as an outgoing properly chargeable to the income of the Board for the purposes of section 21 of the Electricity (Supply) Act, 1927 .

(4) This section shall be deemed to have come into operation on the 16th day of November, 1993.