Electricity Act 1957

The Local Government Act, 1948

In section eighty-five, in paragraph (b) of subsection (1), after the words " British Electricity Authority" there shall be inserted the words " the Electricity Council, the Generating Board " , and at the end of that subsection there shall be inserted the following proviso:—

“Provided that, in relation to the year 1958-59 and all subsequent years, the reference in this subsection to the making of payments by the British Electricity Authority shall be construed as a reference to the making of those payments by the Electricity Council”.

In section ninety-one, after the words " British Electricity Authority " there shall be inserted the words " the Electricity Council, the Generating Board ".

In section ninety-two, in subsection (1), the reference to the British Electricity Authority shall include a reference to the Electricity Council and the Generating Board, and, in relation to that Council and that Board, the reference to the first day of April, nineteen hundred and forty-eight, shall be construed as a reference to the first day of January, nineteen hundred and fifty-eight.

In section ninety-six, nothing in the preceding provisions of this Part of this Schedule shall affect the words " British Electricity Authority " in subsection (1), but the following subsection shall be inserted after that subsection:—

“(1A) The preceding subsection shall not apply to the year 1958-59 or years subsequent thereto; but, with respect to that year, and subsequent years.—

(a) the Electricity Council shall in each year make a payment for the benefit of local authorities in England and Wales; and

(b) the South of Scotland Electricity Board shall in each year make a payment for the benefit of local authorities in Scotland with areas outside the North of Scotland District”,

and in subsection (2) of that section, for the words " said payments " there shall be substituted the words " payments referred to in the preceding subsections " .

In section ninety-seven, in subsection (1), after the words " British Electricity Authority ", there shall be inserted the words " or the Electricity Council ".

In section ninety-eight, in subsection (3), after the words " Central Electricity Authority " there shall be inserted the words " or Electricity Council ", and in subsection (7), in paragraph (c), after the words " Electricity Act, 1947 " there shall be added the words " as modified by section two of the Electricity Act, 1957 " .

In section ninety-nine, at the end of subsection (4), there shall be inserted the following proviso:—

“Provided that, in relation to units supplied on or after the first day of January, nineteen hundred and fifty-eight, references in this subsection to the British Electricity Authority shall be construed as references to the Generating Board”.

In section one hundred and two, in subsection (1), after the words " British Electricity Authority" there shall be inserted the words " the Electricity Council " .