Electricity (Supply) Act, 1927

General regulations.

33.—The Board may by order make such general regulations as may be required for carrying this Act into effect and in particular may, subject to the provisions of this Act, make such regulations as it thinks proper relating to all or any of the following matters or things, that is to say:—

(a) the making of special orders by the Board and applications to the Board for such orders,

(b) the making of orders (not being special orders) by the Board,

(c) the granting by the Board of permits to generate, distribute, and supply or to distribute and supply electricity,

(d) the fees to be paid in respect of the making by the Board of special orders authorising and in respect of the granting by the Board of permits empowering the generation, distribution and supply or the distribution and supply of electricity,

(e) the procedure in relation to the acquisition of authorised undertakings by the Board,

(f) the advancing of moneys to undertakers and the repayment of such moneys,

(g) the procedure in relation to the taking and relinquishing of control by the Board of authorised undertakings and the direction and management of such undertakings while controlled by the Board,

(h) the procedure to be followed by authorised undertakers in the inviting, considering and accepting of tenders for works and supplies,

(i) the erection and maintenance of aerials for receiving messages or other communications by wireless telegraphy with a view to prohibiting by such regulations the erection and maintenance of such aerials in any place or position in which in the opinion of the Board the erection or maintenance thereof constitutes by reason of proximity to a line for the transmission or distribution of electricity a danger to the users of such aerials or to the public or which in the opinion of the Board is an obstruction to the development of electrical distribution (including penalties for the breach of such regulations and the recovery thereof by summary proceedings),

(j) the protection and safety of the Shannon works and of all or any transmission or distribution systems (including the imposition of penalties for the breach of such regulations and the recovery of such penalties by summary proceedings),

(k) the protection of the public safety (including the imposition of penalties for the breach of such regulations and the recovery of such penalties by summary proceedings), and

(l) the procedure of the Board generally.