Electricity (Supply) Act 1935
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1935 c. 3 |
| Year | 1935 |
Electricity (Supply) Act, 1935
(25 & 26 Geo. 5.) CHAPTER 3.
An Act to authorise the Central Electricity Board to make certain arrangements with authorised undertakers who are the owners of, or control, generating stations which are not selected stations; to authorise the Central Electricity Board to supply electricity directly to railway companies for certain purposes; to amend sections eleven and twelve of the Electricity (Supply) Act, 1926; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.
[12th February 1935]
Be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Arrangements between Central Electricity Board and authorised undertakers.
(1) Notwithstanding anything in the Electricity (Supply) Act, 1926 , the Central Electricity Board shall have power and shall be deemed always to have had power under that Act by agreement with any authorised undertakers who are the owners of or control a generating station which is not a selected station to enter into arrangements with them for regulating the manner in which and the purposes for which the station is to be operated and maintained or for securing that the station shall cease to be used as a generating station, and where arrangements are so entered into as aforesaid, the arrangements may provide—
(a ) for the supply of electricity—
(i) to the Board by the undertakers;
(ii) to the undertakers by the Board;
(b ) for the making of payments, of such amounts as may be agreed, to the Board by the undertakers, and to the undertakers by the Board, in respect of the matters provided for by the arrangements;
(c ) for any purposes incidental to the purposes aforesaid:
Provided that after the passing of this Act the Board shall not enter into any such arrangements except with the consent of the Electricity Commissioners, and the Commissioners shall not give their consent unless—
(a ) they are satisfied that the arrangements will not result in a financial loss to the Board; and
(b ) after giving to any authorised undertakers who are under contract to supply electricity to, or to take a supply of electricity from, the owners of the generating station in question, an opportunity of making representations with respect to the matter, they are satisfied that the arrangements will not result in any substantial prejudice to any such authorised undertakers.
(2) So soon as may be after the passing of this Act the Electricity Commissioners shall inquire into the working of any arrangements made before the passing of this Act to which subsection (1) of this section applies, and unless—
(a ) they are satisfied that the continuance of the arrangements will not result in a financial loss to the Board; and
(b ) after giving to any authorised undertakers who are or were when the arrangements were made under contract to supply electricity to or to take a supply of electricity from the owners of the generating station in question an opportunity of making representations with respect to the matter, they are satisfied that the continuance of the arrangements will not result in any substantial prejudice to any such authorised undertakers;
they shall direct that as from such date as may be specified in the direction the arrangements shall cease to operate and the said arrangements shall cease to operate accordingly, except as respects things done or omitted to be done before the said date.
(3) For the purposes of this section authorised undertakers shall be deemed to control a generating station if, and only if, they have, by agreement with the owners of that station or otherwise, power to regulate the manner in which and the purposes for which the station is to be operated and maintained, or, as the case may be, power to secure that the station shall cease to be used as a generating station.
(4) The provisions set out in the Fourth Schedule to the Electricity (Supply) Act, 1926 (which relates to compensation for deprivation of employment), shall apply and shall be deemed always to have applied in relation to every officer or servant of any authorised undertakers affected by the closing (permanent or temporary), or the imposition of restrictions on...
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