Electricity Act 1957

29 Maximum charges for reselling electricity supplied by Electricity Boards

(1) An Area Board, or either of the Scottish Electricity Boards, may publish a notice fixing maximum charges in consideration of which electricity supplied by the Board may be resold by persons to whom it is so supplied, or by any class of such persons specified in the notice.

(2) Any notice under this section shall be published in such manner as in the opinion of the Board will secure adequate publicity for it; and the maximum charges fixed by any such notice may be varied by a subsequent notice published by the Board in accordance with this subsection.

(3) Different maximum charges may be fixed by a Board under this section for different classes of cases, whether by reference to different parts of the area or District of the Board or to different tariffs under which electricity is supplied by the Board or to any other relevant circumstances.

(4) If any person, in consideration of the resale of any electricity supplied by an Area Board or Scottish Electricity Board, in circumstances to which a notice published by the Board under this section applies, requires the payment of charges exceeding the maximum charges applicable thereto in accordance with the notice, the amount of the excess shall be recoverable by the person to whom the electricity is resold.

(5) So much of section eighteen of the Gasworks Clauses Act, 1847, as incorporated with the Electric Lighting Act, 1882, as provides for a penalty to be imposed on persons who supply persons with electricity supplied to them, shall cease to have effect.