An Act to make further provision with respect to the appointment and functions of the Minister of Fuel and Power, and for purposes connected therewith.
[25th April 1945]
Commencement Information
I1Act wholly in force at Royal Assent
(1)[F1The Secretary of State] shall be charged with the general duty of securing the effective and co-ordinated development of coal, petroleum and other minerals and sources of fuel and power in Great Britain, . . . . . . F2, and of promoting economy and efficiency in the supply, distribution, use and consumption of fuel and power, whether produced in Great Britain or not.
(2)The functions specified in the First Schedule to this Act (being functions transferred to the Minister of Fuel and Power by the Ministers of the Crown (Minister of Fuel and Power) Order 1942, made by His Majesty in Council under the Ministers of the M1Crown (Emergency Appointments) Act 1939), and all other functions conferred or imposed on that Minister by virtue of any enactment, regulation, order or other instrument passed or made before the commencement of this Act, shall be functions of the Minister appointed under this Act, and the said Order in Council (including the consequential provisions incorporated therewith) shall continue in force by virtue of this Act with respect to the functions thereby transferred notwithstanding the repeal of the Ministers of the M2Crown (Emergency Appointments) Act 1939, or the expiration of any Order in Council (whether made under that Act or under the Emergency Powers (Defence) Acts 1939 and 1940) by which those functions were previously transferred.
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F1Words substituted by virtue of S.I. 1969/1498, art. 2(2) and 1970/1537, arts. 2(2), 7(4)
F2Words repealed by S.I. 1974/2012, reg. 2
F3S. 1(3) repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1966 (c. 5)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Unreliable marginal note
C2S. 1(1) extended by S.I. 1988/1222, regs. 2, 3, 4
C3s. 1(1) amended by Continental Shelf Act 1964 (c. 29), s. 1(6)
Marginal Citations
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F4Ss. 2, 3 repealed by S.I. 1969/1498, Sch. 2
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F6S. 5 repealed by S.I. 1969/1498, Sch. 2
(1)For the purposes of subsection (1) of section one of this Act, the expressions “coal” and “petroleum” respectively include products of coal and products of petroleum.
(2)For the removal of doubt it is hereby declared that the functions transferred to the Minister of Fuel and Power by virtue of the Ministers of the Crown (Minister of Fuel and Power) Order 1942, do not include functions under section thirteen of the M3Public Health Acts Amendment Act 1890, or under the M4Railways (Electrical Power) Act 1903, (which respectively enable the Minister of War Transport to exercise powers relating to the making of byelaws for the prevention of danger from telegraph wires and other apparatus in and over streets and to the electrification of railways) or functions of the Board of Trade under section twenty of the M5Petroleum (Consolidation) Act 1928 (which relates to apparatus for the testing of petroleum).
(3)It is hereby declared that the reference in section one of this Act to any regulation, order or other instrument made before the commencement of this Act includes a reference to any such instrument in its application to Northern Ireland, and to any such instrument which relates to Northern Ireland only.
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This Act may be cited as the Ministry of Fuel and Power Act 1945.
Section 1.
All functions exercisable by the Board of Trade, whether under any enactment or otherwise, in relation to—
coal, minerals, mines and the mining industry, quarries and petroleum, other than functions exercisable under the enactments relating to weights and measures;
gas undertakings and the supply of gas, including functions exercisable in relation to gas under the enactments relating to weights and measures;
electricity undertakings and the supply of electricity, including functions relating to the Electricity Commissioners; and
hydraulic power undertakings and the supply of hydraulic power.
but not including functions conferred on the Board of Trade by or under Regulations made under the M6Emergency Powers (Defence) Acts 1939 M7 and 1940, other than the functions referred to in Regulation 3 of the Defence (Functions of Ministers) Regulations 1941 (by which the functions of the Minister of War Transport in relation to electricity undertakings and the supply of electricity, including functions relating to the Electricity Commissioners, were transferred to the Board of Trade).
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F11Sch. 3 repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1950 (c. 6), Sch. 1