Electricity Act 1947

Specific Adaptations and Modifications.

Enactment.	Adaptation or Modification.
Electric Lighting Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 56).
s. 12	For the words from " For the purposes of this Act " to " under this Act " there shall be substituted— “For the purposes of this Act, in the construction of all the enactments incorporated by this section the ' promoters ' or ' undertakers ' means an Electricity Board and ' the undertaking ' means the business carried on by such a Board, and ' the special Act' means the Electricity (Supply) Acts, 1882 to 1936 (including, as regards the North of Scotland Board, the Act of 1943), the Electricity Act, 1947, and any local enactment (within the meaning of the last named Act) applicable to any such Board”; and for the words " the area within which the undertakers are authorised to supply electricity under any licence, order or special Act " there shall be substituted the words " in relation to the Central Authority, the whole of Great Britain except the North of Scotland District, in relation to any Area Board, the area for which that Board is for the time being established and, in relation to the North of Scotland Board, the North of Scotland District ".
s. 13	For the words " the undertakers " there shall be substituted the words " the North of Scotland Board or any Area Board ", and the words " insert any such special powers in any licence or provisional order or " shall be omitted.
s. 14	The section shall not apply to main transmission lines the construction of which is authorised by a scheme under the Act of 1943.
s. 15	The words " and to any bye-laws made . under this Act " shall be omitted.
s. 16	For the words " the undertakers ", in the first three places where they occur, there shall be substituted the words " an Electricity Board or any undertakers whose undertaking has been transferred to any such Board ".
s. 18	For the words " lamp or burner ", wherever they occur throughout the section, there shall be substituted the words " electrical fittings ".
s. 31	For this section the following section shall be substituted :— “31 In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the expression ' local authority ' means— (a) in England and Wales the council of a county borough, county district or metropolitan borough and the Common Council of the City of London ; and (b) in Scotland a county or town council.”
s. 36	The definition of the expression " public purposes " shall be omitted.
Electric Lighting Act, 1909 (9 Edw. 7. c. 34).
s. 2	For the words " any undertakers " there shall be substituted the words " the Central Authority "; after the words " the Board of Trade" there shall be inserted the words " (which consent may be subject to such conditions as the Minister may impose) "; after the word " construct " there shall be inserted the words " or extend ", the words from " acquired by them" to the words " special Act or Provisional Order" shall be omitted ; after the word " constructed " there shall be inserted the words " or extended "; at the end of the first paragraph of the section there shall be inserted the words " and, in the case of an extension of any generating station, the Minister may, if the extension appears to him to be of a minor character, dispense with the giving of a notice and of an opportunity for stating objections as aforesaid "; and the second paragraph of the section shall be omitted.
s. 23	For the words from the beginning of the section to "in terms of the Electric Lighting Acts " there shall be substituted the words " It shall not be lawful for any local authority, company or person, other than an Electricity Board, to commence to supply or distribute electricity. "
s. 25	The definition of the expressions " Provisional Order ", " authorised ", " area of supply ", " undertakers ", " generating station ", and " to supply electricity in bulk " shall be omitted.
s. 26	Subsection (1) shall be omitted.
Electricity (Supply) Act, 1919 (9 & 10 Geo. 5. c. 100).
s. 10	The words "a joint electricity authority or" shall be omitted.
s. 11	After the word " person ", where it first occurs, there shall be inserted the words " other than the Central Authority or the North of Scotland Board ", the words " or main transmission line " shall be omitted, the words " a joint electricity authority or " shall be omitted, and the words from " Provided also " to the end of the section shall be omitted.
s. 15	In subsection (1) the words " on the representation of the Electricity Commissioners " and " any joint electricity authority or" and " joint electricity authority or " shall be omitted, and in proviso (a) to that subsection for the words " a special order " there shall be substituted the words " subject to special parliamentary procedure "; and subsections (2), (3) and (4) shall be omitted.
s. 21	After the word " consent " in the first and third places where it occurs, the words " or authorisation " shall be inserted, and after the word " to " in the first place where it occurs there shall be inserted the words " or for. "
s. 22	The words " A joint electricity authority or" and the words " joint electricity authority or", wherever they occur, shall be omitted, and for the words " special order as defined in the Electric Lighting (Clauses) Act, 1899, " wherever they occur, there shall be substituted the words " local enactment (as defined by the Electricity Act, 1947) applicable to the Electricity Board ".
s. 29	Subsection (2) shall be omitted, and at the end of the section the following sub-section shall be added :— “(4) If the said fund proves insufficient to defray the payments required to be made out of the fund under the last foregoing subsection, the deficit shall be made good by the Central Authority and the North of Scotland Board in such proportions as the Minister and the Secretary of State may determine”.
s. 31	The words " by a joint electricity authority or " shall be omitted.
s. 36	The definitions of " authorised undertakers ", " authorised distributors " power company ", "lighting authority", " subsidiary company " and " sinking fund charges " shall be omitted.
Electricity (Supply) Act, 1922 (12 & 13 Geo. 5. c. 46).
s. 11	The words " joint electricity authority or ", wherever they occur, and the words " authority or " shall be omitted, and for the words " the principal Act ", wherever they occur, there shall be substituted the words " the Electricity (Supply) Act, 1919 .
s. 25	In subsection (1), for paragraphs (a) (b) and (c) there shall be substituted the following paragraphs— “(a) to the owners or lessees of any other railway generating station ; or (b) to any Electricity Board ; or (c) to any consumer, subject to the consent of the Area Board in whose area the premises to be supplied are situated or, if they are situated in the North of Scotland District, the North of Scotland Board”; and the words from " Provided that " to the end of paragraph (iii) shall be omitted.
Electricity (Supply) Act, 1926 (16 & 17 Geo. 5. c. 51).
s. 24	For the words " the Board", in both places where they occur, there shall be substituted the words " an Electricity Board ".
s. 34	In subsection (1) the words " main transmission line or other " shall be omitted and subsection (7) shall be omitted.
s. 35	For the words " the Board ", where they first occur, there shall be substituted the words " an Electricity Board "; for the words "work by this Act authorised" and " portion of the undertaking by this Act authorised" there shall be substituted the words " work of an Electricity Board ".
s. 44	In subsection (1) for the word " applications " there shall be substituted the words " application is ", after the words " place the line " there shall be inserted the words " or, as the case may be, may commence proceedings under the Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) Act, 1946, as applied by section nine of the Electricity Act, 1947, to purchase compulsorily a right to place the line " and at the end of the subsection there shall be inserted the words " or, as the case may be,, under the said section twenty-one and under the said Act of 1946 as so applied "; in subsection (2) the words " the Board or", in the first place where they occur shall be omitted, the words " Board or " in the second place where they occur shall be omitted and after the words " Electricity (Supply) Act, 1919 " there shall be inserted the words " or, in the case of the North of Scotland Board, under the provisions of the Act of 1943 ".
s. 51	In subsection (1) the definitions of " generating station ", " authorised undertakers ", " local authority " and " absolute right of veto " shall be omitted ; and subsections (2) to' (s) shall be omitted.
The Electricity Supply (Meters), Act 1936 (26 Geo. 5. & 1 Edw. 8. c. 20).
s. 1.	The proviso to subsection (4) shall be omitted.
s. 2	Subsection (4) shall be omitted.
s. 3	The proviso to subsection (2) shall be omitted.
s. 5	In subsection (2), the words " except in relation to the administrative county of London " shall be omitted.