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In this Code, unless it is repugnant to the context,-- (1) "Act" means the Electricity Act, 2003 (Central Act 36 of 2003), as amended from time to time; (2) "accredited laboratory" means a laboratory accredited by National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL); (3) "agreement" means an agreement entered into between the distribution licensee and the consumer; (4) "apparatus" means electrical apparatus; and includes all machines, fittings, accessories and appliances in which conductors are used; (5) "appellate authority" means the authority prescribed by Government under sub-section (1) of Section 127 of the Act; (6) "applicant" means an owner or occupier of any land or premises who files an application with a licensee for the supply of electricity or for the increase or reduction in sanctioned load or contract demand, or for the change in title, or for the disconnection or reconnection of supply or for the termination of agreement or for other services, as the case may be, in accordance with the provisions of the Act, the rules and the regulations made thereunder; (7) "application form" means an application form complete in all respects in the appropriate format, as required by the distribution licensee, before the payment of applicable charges; (8) "application" means an application form complete in all respects in the appropriate format, as required by the distribution licensee, along with the receipt for payment of necessary charges and all necessary documents including approvals from statutory or other authorities; (9) "approved laboratory" means a laboratory approved by the Commission for testing and calibration of energy meters and associated equipment; (10) "area of supply" means the area within which a licensee is authorised by his licence to supply electricity; (11) "arrears of charges" means any charge, along with interest thereon, payable by the consumer to the licensee, in terms of the agreement, which is not paid by the consumer even after the due date; (12) "assessing officer" means an officer designated by the Government of Kerala under the provisions of Section 126 of the Act; (13) "authorised officer" means an officer authorised by the Commission under sub-section (1A) of Section 135 of the Act or by the Government of Kerala under sub-section (2) of Section 135 of the Act, as the case may be; (14) "authorised representative" of any person or entity means all officers, employees, representatives or persons discharging functions under the general or specific authority of the concerned person or entity; (15) "average power factor" for a billing period means the ratio of the total kilowatt hours (kWh) to the total kilovolt ampere hours (kVAh) supplied during that period; ratio being rounded off to two decimal places; (16) "bank rate" means the standard rate notified by the Reserve Bank of India as per Section 49 of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 (Central Act 2 of 1934), at which it is prepared to buy or re-discount bills of exchange or other commercial paper eligible for purchase thereunder; (17) "bill date" means the date on which the bill is prepared by the distribution licensee; which shall not be later than three working days from the date of meter reading; (18) "billing cycle or billing period" means the period as approved by the Commission for which regular electricity bills are prepared by the licensee for different categories of consumers; (19) "calendar year" means the period from the first day of January of a Gregorian calendar year to the thirty first day of December, of the same year; (20)"check meter" means a meter which shall be connected to the same core of the Current Transformer (CT) and Voltage Transformer (VT) to which main meter is connected and shall be used for accounting and billing of electricity in case of failure of the main meter; (21) "Code" means the Kerala Electricity Supply Code, 2014 as amended from time to time; (22) "Commission" means the Kerala State Electricity Regulatory Commission constituted under the Act; (23) "conductor" means any wire, cable, bar, tube, rail or plate used for conducting electrical energy and so arranged as to be electrically connected to a system; (24) "connected load" expressed in kW or kVA means aggregate of the rated capacities of all energy consuming devices or apparatus which can be simultaneously used, excluding stand-by load if any, in the premises of the consumer, which are connected to the service line of the distribution licensee; (25) "consumer installation" or "installation of the consumer" means any composite portable or stationary electrical unit including electric wires, fittings, motors and apparatus erected and wired by or on behalf of the consumer at the premises of the consumer starting from the point of supply; (26) "consumer" means the consumer as defined in the Act; (27) "contracted connected load" means the connected load installed by the consumer at the time of executing the service connection agreement and recorded in kW / kVA in the schedule to the said agreement or the connected load duly revised thereafter; (28) "contracted load" or "contract demand" means the maximum demand in kW or kVA, agreed to be supplied by the distribution licensee and indicated in the agreement executed between the licensee and the consumer; or the contracted load or contract demand duly revised thereafter; (29) "cut-out" means any appliance or device for automatically interrupting the conduction of electricity through any conductor when the current rises above a predetermined quantum and shall also include a fusible cut-out; (30) "date of commencement of supply" is the date on which the licensee energises the consumer installation by connecting to the distribution mains; (31) dedicated distribution system"" means such facilities, not including a service line, forming part of the distribution system of the distribution licensee, which are clearly and solely dedicated to the supply of electricity to a single consumer or a group of consumers on the same premises or contiguous premises; (32) "demand charge" for a billing period means a charge levied on the consumer based on the contract demand or maximum demand, whichever is higher, and calculated as per the procedure approved in the tariff order issued by the Commission from time to time; (33) "disconnection" means the physical separation of the installation of the consumer from the distribution system of the licensee on a temporary basis so as to cut off the supply of electricity to the consumer; (34) "dismantling of service" means the process of removing service line, meter and associated apparatus from the premises of the consumer after disconnection of supply; (35) "distributing mains" means the portion of any main with which a service line is, or is intended to be, immediately connected; (36) "earthed" or "connected with earth" means connected with the general mass of earth in such manner as to ensure at all times an immediate discharge of electricity without danger; (37) "emergency load shedding" means load shedding carried out by the licensee at short notice or no notice for safety of personnel and equipment or due to system constraints or both; (38) "energy charge" means the charge levied on the consumer based on the quantity of energy supplied, which is expressed in kWh or kVAh; (39) "energy" or "electricity" means electrical energy; generated, transmitted, wheeled, supplied, traded or used for any purpose, except for the transmission of a message; (40) "extra high tension (EHT)" means a voltage exceeding 33000 volts under normal conditions subject to the percentage variation as may be specified by the Central Electricity Authority from time to time; (41) "extra high tension consumer (EHT Consumer)" means a consumer who obtains supply from the licensee at extra high tension; (42) "feeder" means a low tension (LT), high tension (HT), or extra high tension (EHT) distributor, emanating from a sub-station, to which a distribution sub-station, or LT or HT or EHT consumers are connected; (43) "financial year" means the period beginning from the first of April in a Gregorian calendar year and ending with the thirty first of March of the next year; (44) "fixed charge" means the fixed charge levied as per the provisions of the tariff order issued for the licensee by the Commission; (45) "harmonics" means a component of a periodic wave having frequency that is an integral multiple of the fundamental power line frequency of 50 Hz, causing distortion to pure sinusoidal waveform of voltage or current; (46) "high rise building" means a high rise building as defined in the Kerala Municipality Building Rules, 1999, as amended from time to time or in its statutory re-enactment; (47) "high tension (HT)" means a voltage higher than 1000 volts and which does not exceed 33,000 volts under normal conditions subject to the percentage variation as may be specified by the Central Electricity Authority from time to time; (48) "high tension consumer (HT Consumer)" means a consumer who avails supply of electricity from the licensee at high tension; (49) "IEEE Standard" relates to the technical standards issued from time to time by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), United States of America; (50) "installation" means any composite electrical unit used for the purpose of generating, transforming, transmitting, converting, distributing, trading or utilising energy; (51) "licence" means a licence granted under Section 14 of the Act; (52) "licensed electrical contractor" means a contractor licensed by the Government of Kerala in accordance with the provisions of Central Electricity Authority (Measures relating to Safety and Electric Supply) Regulations, 2010, as amended from time to time; (53) "licensee" or "distribution licensee" means a person granted licence under Section 14 of the Act authorising him to operate and maintain a distribution system and to supply electricity to the consumers in his area of supply; and includes a deemed licensee; (54) "low tension (LT)" means a voltage that does not exceed 1000volts under normal conditions subject to the percentage variation as may be specified by the Central Electricity Authority from time to time; (55) "low tension consumer (LT Consumer)" means a consumer who avails supply of electricity from the licensee at low tension; (56) "maximum demand " means the highest average load measured in kVA or kW at the point of supply of a consumer during a consecutive period of thirty minutes or such other consecutive period as specified by the Commission; during a billing cycle; (57) "meter" means a device suitable for measuring, indicating and recording consumption of electricity or any other quantity related with electrical system; and shall include, wherever applicable, other equipment such as current transformer (CT), voltage transformer (VT), or capacitance voltage transformer (CVT) necessary for such purpose; (58) "minimum charge" means the minimum charge payable by the consumer for a billing period as approved by the Commission in the tariff order; (59) "month" means a period of thirty days for the purpose of billing or a Gregorian Calendar month; (60) "occupier" means the owner or person in occupation of the premises where energy is used or proposed to be used; (61) "overhead line" means an electric line which is placed above the ground and in the open air but does not include live rails of a traction system; (62) "person" shall include any company or body corporate or association or body of individuals, whether incorporated or not, or artificial juridical person; (63) "phased contract demand" means contract demand agreed to be availed in a phased manner; (64) "point of supply" means the point at the incoming terminal of the cut-out installed by the consumer in the case of low tension consumer and the point at the incoming terminal of the control switch gear installed by the consumer in the case of high tension and extra high tension consumers; (65) "power factor" is the ratio of active power to apparent power; where the active power is the multiple of the components of voltage and alternating current that equate to true power, normally measured in kilowatts (kW) or megawatts (MW) and apparent power is the product of voltage and alternating current measured in volt amperes normally measured in volt ampere (VA), kilovolt ampere (kVA) or mega volt ampere (MVA); (66) "power intensive unit" means an industrial unit which consumes electricity at HT or EHT level:-- (i) for induction arc furnace; or (ii) for the manufacture of any one or more products namely calcium carbide, caustic soda, charge chrome, Ferro-chrome, Ferro-manganese, Ferro-silicon, Ferro-alloys, Silicon carbide, sodium metal, potassium chlorate, sodium chlorate and other chlorate and per chlorates; or (iii) for any one or more of the processes namely; melting of metals and alloys, electro chemical processes, electro thermal processes; or (iv) for manufacture of products for which cost of electricity is more than twenty five percent of the cost of product manufactured; or (v) for heating load exceeding twenty percent of its total connected load; (67) "premises" includes any land or building or structure which is included in the details and sketches specified in the application or in the agreement for grant of electric connection or in such other records relating to revision of connected load or contract demand; (68) "protected load" means a load not subjected to scheduled load shedding; (69) "rural area" means the area comprised within a Grama Panchayat; (70) "service line" means any electric supply line through which electricity is, or is intended to be, supplied:-- (i) to a single consumer either from a distributing main or immediately from the premises of the distribution licensee; or (ii) to a group of consumers on the same premises or on contiguous premises supplied from the same point of the distributing main; (71) "system" means an electrical system in which all the conductors and apparatus are electrically connected to a common source of electric supply; (72) "tariff order" in respect of a licensee means the order issued from time to time by the Commission, stipulating the rates to be charged by the said licensee from various categories of consumers for supply of electrical energy and for other services; (73) "tariff schedule" means the schedule of charges for supply of electricity and for other services as approved by the Commission from time to time and published by the licensee; (74) "temporary supply" means supply of electricity for a specified period; (75) "theft" shall mean theft of electricity as explained in Section 135 of the Act; (76) "transmission licensee" means a person who has been granted a licence under Section 14 of the Act authorising him to establish and operate transmission lines; and includes a deemed licensee; (77) "transmission system" means the system consisting of extra high tension electric lines, owned or operated by the transmission licensee for the purposes of the transmission of electricity from one power station to a substation or to another power station or between sub-stations or to or from any external interconnection equipment up to the interconnection with the distribution system; and includes the plant and apparatus and meters owned or used by the transmission licensee in connection with the transmission of electricity; but shall not include the interconnection facilities of a generator or any part of the distribution system of any distributing licensee; (78) "unauthorised connected load" means the connected load in excess of the contracted connected load; (79) "unauthorised use of electricity" means the usage of electricity as explained in Section 126 of the Act; (80) "urban area" means the area comprised within the Municipal Corporations and Municipalities including the areas falling under the various Cantonment Authorities and industrial estates or townships; (81) "user" means any person having electrical interface with or using the distribution system of the distribution licensee, to whom this Code is applicable and includes any distribution licensee, transmission licensee and generating units connected to the distribution system and the person availing open access in transmission or distribution system.