PART VIII

Miscellaneous

47. —(1) Subject to subsection (2) the power to make a special order conferred on the Board by section 45(1) of the Principal Act shall be exerciseable by the Commission and not by the Board on the application of the Board or a holder of an authorisation or a person who has applied for an authorisation and any references in that Act to the making of special orders shall be construed as references to the making of such orders by the Commission.

(2) A special order made by the Commission shall operate to confer on an applicant for an authorisation under section 16 the functions which such an order would confer on the Board.

(3) Where an application is made to the Commission for a special order under this section, section 45(2) to (6) of the Principal Act shall apply to the Commission as it does to the Board.

48. —The power to lay electric lines conferred on the Board by section 51 and section 52(1) of the Principal Act may, with the consent of the Commission, also be exercised by the holder of an authorisation or the holder of a direct line permission under section 37 and the said section 51 and 52(1) shall apply to the holder of an authorisation or the holder of a direct line permission under the said section 37 in like manner as they apply to the Board.

49. —A holder of an authorisation or the holder of a direct line permission may, with the consent of the Commission, for the purposes of such authorisation, exercise the powers conferred on the Board by subsections (1) to (5) and (9) of section 53 of the Principal Act and references to the Board in those subsections shall be construed as including references to a holder of an authorisation.

50. —(1) Subject to subsection (2), references in section 54 of the Principal Act to an authorised undertaker shall include references to the holder of an authorisation or the holder of a direct line permission under section 37 .

(2) Where regulations made before the commencement of this section are made by the Board under the Principal Act which regulate the placing of electric lines across or along or either over or under any railway, land, inland navigation, dock or harbour those regulations shall apply to the holder of an authorisation or the holder of a direct line permission under section 37 .

(3) The Board shall not amend regulations to which subsection (2) applies without the consent of the Commission.

(4) The Commission may prescribe modifications to regulations referred to in subsection (2) for the purposes of enabling their application to the holder of an authorisation or the holder of a direct line permission under section 37 .

51. —Section 91 of the Principal Act shall apply to the holder of an authorisation or the holder of a direct line permission under section 37 in like manner as it applies to an authorised undertaker and references to the Board shall be construed as references to the Commission for that purpose.

52. —Regulations made by the Board before the commencement of this section under section 2 of the Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) Act, 1949 , shall have effect in respect of persons to whom licences or authorisations have been granted under this Act or in respect of eligible customers.

53. — Section 2 of the Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) Act, 1949 , is hereby amended by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (2):

“(2) Where the Board proposes to make regulations under this section the purposes of which are not solely connected with the procedure, administration or internal direction of the Board, it shall submit the regulations to the Commission for approval and the Commission may—

(a) approve of the regulations with or without amendments, or

(b) refuse to approve of the regulations until amendments specified by the Commission are made by the Board.”.

54. — Section 2(3), (4) and (6) of the Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) Act, 1949 , is hereby repealed.