Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL [Lords].

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons am ar 25 Gorffennaf 1922.

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Provided that where on the application of a joint electricity authority it is proposed to make such an Order (not being an Order made under Section seven of the principal Act), and the power company, or any county council, local authority, or authorised undertakers which appear to the Electricity Commissioners to be interested object -to the proposed Order, effect shall not be given to the proposals except by a Special Order under Section twenty-six of the principal Act. (2) Where in pursuance of this Section any part of the area of supply of a power company is by Order excluded from such area of supply—

  1. (a) the exclusion shall not affect any rights of the power company existing immediately before the making of the Order to lay mains through the part so excluded, but any such rights may continue to be exercised by the power company notwithstanding such exclusion;
  2. (b) the exclusion shall not prevent the power company from giving a supply of electricity at any point in their remaining area for the purpose of haulage or traction on any railway, tramway, or canal, and for the purpose of lighting vehicles and vessels used on any such railway tramway, or canal which they could have supplied if the part of the area excluded under this Section had remained part of their area of supply.
(3) Section fourteen of the principal Act is repealed.—[Mr. Neal.]