Electricity Act 1957

Machinery for settling employment conditions

2 (1) This paragraph applies to any agreement entered into by the Central Authority under section fifty-three of the principal Act (which made provision for purposes similar to those of section twelve of this Act), being an agreement which is in force immediately before the vesting date.

(2) Any such agreement relating to employed persons generally or to any class of employed persons—

(a) shall continue in operation on and after the vesting date until it is superseded by an agreement made in relation to employed persons generally or to that class of employed persons, as the case may be, under the corresponding provisions of section twelve of this Act, and

(b) while it so continues in operation, shall, subject to the following provisions of this paragraph, have effect, in relation to any time on or after the vesting date, as if the Electricity Council had been a party to the agreement and as if, in the provisions of the agreement, references (however expressed) to the Central Authority were references to the Electricity Council or to the Generating Board or to both of them, as the case may require.

(3) In so far as any agreement to which this paragraph applies provides for the constitution of a national organisation (that is to say, a council or other organisation whose functions under the agreement extend to the whole of Great Britain or the whole of England and Wales), the agreement shall have effect, in relation to any time on or after the vesting date, subject to the following provisions, that is to say—

(a) any power for the Central Authority to appoint members of the organisation to represent the Authority generally shall be construed as a power for the Electricity Council to appoint members to represent the Council; and any member of the organisation so appointed by the Central Authority shall be treated as if he had been appointed by the Electricity Council to represent the Council;

(b) any other power for the Central Authority to appoint a member of the organisation shall be construed as if it were a power for the Electricity Council to appoint such a member, and as if any reference in that power to a division of the Authority were a reference to the corresponding division of the Generating Board; and any member of the organisation appointed by the Central Authority in the exercise of such a power shall be treated as if he had been appointed by the Electricity Council in the exercise of that power as modified by this provision.

(4) In so far as any agreement to which this paragraph applies provides for the constitution of an organisation other than a national organisation, the agreement shall have effect, in relation to any time on or after the vesting date, subject to the following provisions, that is to say,—

(a) any power for the Central Authority, or a division of the Central Authority, to appoint any members of the organisation shall be construed as a power for the Generating Board, or the corresponding division of the Generating Board, as the case may be, to appoint those members;

(b) any members of the organisation appointed by the Central Authority, or a division of the Central Authority, shall be treated as if they had been appointed by the Generating Board, or the corresponding division of the Generating Board, as the case may be.

(5) It shall be the duty of the Generating Board and of each of the Area Boards to comply with any agreement to which this paragraph applies, while it continues in operation in accordance with this paragraph.

(6) Subsection (1) of section twenty-six of this Act shall not apply to any agreement to which this paragraph applies.