Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) No person, other than those authori.ed to do so by licence or by virlue of exemption undcr this Act or authorised or exempted. by any other authority under the Electricity (Supply) Act, 1948, shall engage in the State in the business of- 540f 1946 (a) transmitting ; or (b) supplyin9 electricity. (2) Where any difference or dispute aripes as to whet her any person is or i s not engaged or about to engage In the business of trans~~mitting or &upplying electricity as mentioned in sub-section (1), the matter shall be referred to the Commission for decision which shall ba final. (3) The Commission sba ll have the pou er to order my unlicense person to cease operating and disconnect its app~retus. - (4) ~ o t h i t h s t anding any thing contained in the other ' provisions OF this Aa, until the establishment of the Commission in terms of sectlop 3, the State Government shzll, for a period of six months from the date this Act comes into force, have the power to grant provisronal licences under this section having a duration not exceeding twslve months to any person or person: to ensage in the Stale in the busincss of transmirsion or supply of electricity. on such terms and conditions as the State Government may determine consistent with the provisions of this Act, subject however to thc following condition:, namely:- (a) upon the establishment of the Commissicn, each of the provisional licences so granted shall be placed before the- Commission and shall be deemed to canstitute an appliation for a licence by the Commi~sion under the provisions of this Act ; and (b) each provisicnal licence granted under this section shall cease to be valid and effective on the date on whlch the decision of the Commission . on the application is communicated. Uranr of