Electricity (Supply) Act, 1927

Regulations to be incorporated with special orders.

34.—(1) The Board may by order make regulations (including regulations imposing penalties) in lieu of or in addition to the provisions heretofore contained in the Electric Lighting Clauses Act, 1899, as amended by the Electric Lighting Act, 1909, or by any other Act and all regulations so made shall be deemed to be incorporated in every Special Act or Order passed or made before the passing of this Act in substitution for any provisions on the same matters contained or incorporated in such Special Act or Order whether such provisions are or are not the provisions of the Electric Lighting Clauses Act, 1899, as amended as aforesaid.

(2) All regulations made by the Board under this section shall be incorporated with and form part of every special order made by the Board constituting the Board or any other person to be an authorised undertaker save in so far as such regulations are expressly excepted or varied by such special order, and shall, subject to such variations or exceptions (if any), apply so far as applicable to the undertaking authorised by such special order.

(3) Where the provisions of the Electric Lighting Clauses Act, 1899, as amended as aforesaid have before the passing of this Act been incorporated with any Electric Lighting Order made under any Act the several provisions of the said Electric Lighting Clauses Act, 1899, as so amended shall in so far as not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act remain in force until such time as such provisions are respectively replaced by regulations made by the Board under this section.

(4) Whenever any regulation proposed to be made by the Board under this section contains any provision imposing any restriction on any local authority or requiring or authorising any interference with the functions or duties of any local authority such regulation shall not be made until after consultation with the Minister for Local Government and Public Health and the service of such notices (if any) and the holding of such inquiries (if any) as the said Minister may require to be served or held.

(5) Whenever any regulation proposed to be made by the Board under this section contains any provision relating to any gas undertaking, railway, canal, inland navigation, dock, or harbour such regulation shall not be made until after consultation with the Minister and the service of such notices (if any) and the holding of such inquiries (if any) as the Minister may require to be served and held.

(6) Whenever any regulation proposed to be made by the Board under this section contains any provision relating to or affecting any lands, premises, works, or materials or other property of the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs such regulation shall not be made until after consultation with the said Minister.

(7) All rules and regulations made under any Act repealed by this Act shall, so far as they are in force at the date of the passing of this Act, remain in force unless and until such rules or regulations are replaced by regulations (relating to the same subject matter as the subject matter of the rules or regulations aforesaid) made by the Board under this section.

(8) Every regulation made by the Board under this section shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made, and if a resolution is passed by either such House within the next subsequent twenty-one days on which that House has sat annulling such regulation, such regulation shall be annulled accordingly, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under such regulation.