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Restriction on licensees controlling or interfering with use of energy. – (1) A licensee shall not be entitled to prescribe any special form of appliance for utilisilig energy supplied by him, or, save as provided in any conditions made under subsection (2) or by Section 23, sub- section (2), or by Section 26, sub-section (7), in any way to control or interfere with the use of such energy: Provided that no person, may adopt any form of appliance, or use the energy supplied to him, so as unduly or improperly to interfere with- (a) The safety or efficient working of licensee electric supply- lines or other works: or (b) The supply or energy by the licensee to any other person. (2) A licensee may, with the previous sanction of the State Government, given after consulting the State Electricity Board and also the loco authority, where the licensee is not the local authority, make conditions not inconsistent with this Act or with his intend to become consumers, and may, with the like sanction given after the like consultation, add to or alter or amend any such conditions; and any conditions made by a licensee without such sanction shall be null and void: Provided that any such conditions made before the 23rd day of January, 1922 shall, if sanctioned by the State Government on application made by the licensee before such date as the State Government may, by general or special order, fix in this behalf, be deemed to have been made in accordance with the provisions of this sub-section. (3) The State Government may, after the like consultation, add any new condition or cancel or amend any condition or part of a condition previously sanctioned under subsection (2) after giving to the licensee not less than one month’s notice in writing of its intention so to do. (4) Where any difference or dispute arises as to whether a licensee has prescribed any appliance or controlled or interfered with the use of energy in contravention of sub-section (1), the matter shall be either referred to an Electrical Inspector and decided by him or, if the licensee or consumer so desires, determined by arbitration.