Yorkshire Electric Power Act 1936
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1936 c. xxxi |
| Year | 1936 |
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GEO.
5. & Yorkshire Electric Power [Oh. XXXi.]
1 EDW. 8.] Act, 1936.
CHAPTER xxxi.
An Act to confer further powers upon the
A.D.
1936.
Yorkshire Electric Power Company and for
other purposes. [21st May 1936.]
1 Edw. 7.
c. cxvi.
W
HEREAS by the Yorkshire Electric Power Act 1901
the Yorkshire Electric Power Company (herein-
after called " the Company") were incorporated and
authorised (amongst other things) to acquire lands and
buildings to erect certain generating stations and other
works and to supply electricity within parts of the west
riding of the county of York and by subsequent Acts
further powers have been conferred upon the Company
including a power to apply for Special or other Orders
under the Electricity (Supply) Acts .1882 to 1935:
And whereas in the case of Special Orders to which.
section 39 of the Electricity (Supply) Act 1926 applies 16
&
17
and in which the Electricity Commissioners decide to
Geo.
5.
c.
51.
give effeet to subsection (2) of that section it is the
practice of the said commissioners to make such Special
Orders subject to the condition that the undertakings
thereunder shall within a limited period be transferred
to a company registered under the Companies Act 1929 : 19
&
20
Geo.
5.
c.
23.
And whereas with a view to enabling the Company to
finance the undertakings authorised by any such Special
Orders applied for by them it is expedient that the
powers conferred upon the Company by their existing
Acts of investing in the capital or securities of other
companies should be extended as provided by this Act:
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