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INTERPRETATION. -In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context, - (1) “Authority” means the Central Electricity Authority constituted under Sec. 3; (2) “Board” means a State Electricity Board constituted under Sec. 5; (3) “Bulk-licensee” means a licensee who is authorized by his licence to supply electricity to other licensees for distribution by them; 1[(3-A) “Competent government” means the Central Government in respect of a Generating Company wholly or partly owned by it and in all other cases the Government of the State in which the generating station of a Generating Company is located or proposed to be located;] (4) (4) “Controlled station” means a generating station designated in a scheme sanctioned under Chapter V as a controlled station; 2[(4-A)”Generating Company” means a company registered under The Companies Act, 1956 (I of 1956), and which has among its objects the establishment, operation and maintenance of generating stations;] (5) “Generate station” or “station” means any station for generating electricity, including any building and plant 3[with step-up transformer switch-gear, cables or other appurtenant equipment, if any] used for that purpose and the site thereof, a site intended to be used for a generating station, and any buildings used for housing the operating staff of a generating station, and where electricity is generated by water-power, includes penstocks, head and tail works, main and regulating reservoirs, dams and other hydraulic works, but does not in any case include any sub-section 4[* * *]; (6) “Licensee” means a person licensed under Part 11 of The Indian Electricity Act, 19 10 (9 of 19 1 0) to supply energy or a person who has obtained sanction under Sec. 28 of that Act to engage in the business of supplying energy 5[but the provisions of Sec. 26 or Sec. 26-A of this Act notwithstanding, does not include the Board or a Generating Company]-, (7) “Main transmission lines” means all high pressure cables and over- head lines (not being an essential part of the distribution system of a licensee) transmitting electricity from a generating station to another generating station or to a sub-section, together with any step-up and step down transformers, switch-gears and other works necessary to and used for the control of such cables or over-head lines, and such building or part thereof as may be required to accommodate such transformers, switch-gears and other works and the operating staff thereof, 6[(8) “Maximum demand” in relation to any period shall, unless otherwise provided in any general or special orders of the State Government mean twice the largest number of kilowatt-hours or kilo-volt- ampere-hours supplied and taken during any consecutive thirty minutes in that period;] 7[(8-A) “Power system” means all aspects of generation, transmission, distribution and supply of energy; and includes the following or any combination thereof- (a) Generating stations; (b) Transmission or main transmission lines; (c) Sub-stations; (d) Tic-lines; (e) Load dispatch activities; (f) Mains or distribution mains; (g) Electric supply-lines; (h) Overhead lines; (I) Service lines; (j) Works,] (9) “Prescribed” means prescribed by rules 8[made under this Act]; 9[(9-A)”Regional Electricity Board” means a Board constituted by resolution of the Central Government for a specified region for facilitating the integrated operation of the power system in that region; (9-B) “Regional Load Dispatch Center” means the Center so designated for a specified region where the operation of the power system in that region and the integration of the power system with other regions and areas (within the territory of India or outside) are coordinated; (9-C) “State Load Dispatch Center”, in relation to a State, means the Center and designated where the operation of the power system in that's State and integration of such State power system with other power system are coordinated;] (10) “Regulations” inseams regulations made by the Board under Sec. 79; (11) “Reserve Bank” means the Reserve Bank of India; 10[(l1-A) “Sub-section” means a station for transforming or converting electricity for the transmission or distribution thereof and includes transformers, converters, switch-gear, capacitors, synchronous condensers, structures, cables and other appurtenant equipments and any buildings used for that purpose and the site thereof, a site intended to be used for any such purpose and any buildings used for housing the staff of the sub-section; (11-B) “Tie-line” means a line for the transfer of electricity between two, power system “ means all works mentioned in sub-section (7) used wholly or partially for the purposes of distribution or transmission of energy; 9[(12) “Transmission lines” means all works mentioned in sub-section(7) used wholly or partially for the purposes of distribution or transmission of energy;] (13) “Year” means, in relation to the Board 10[or a Generating Company], the year commencing on the lest day of April; (14) “Year of account” means, in relation to a licensee, his financial years; (15) Other expression has the meanings respectively assigned to them in The Indian Electricity Act, 1910 (9 of 19 1 0).