Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Indian Electricity Aet, 1910, or in any license granted thereunder or in. any contract or agreement or in any requisition, the Pro,incial Government may, if in its opinion, it is necessary or expedient for maintaining the supply or securing the equitable distribution of electrical energy, by an order in writing direct a licensee- (a) not to comply; except with the written permission of the Provincial Government, with- (i) the provisions of any contract, agreement or requisition (whether made before or after· the commencement of this Act), for the supply (other than the resumption of a supply), or an increase in the supply, of electrical energy to any person, t IX,o£ 1910.. ( . '>, The West Bengal Electricity. (Emergency s' Powers) Act, 1948. XVII of 1948.] 3 (Sections 6-10.) (ii) any requisition for the resumption of a supply to a consumer after a period of six months from the date of its discontinuance, (iii) any requisition for the resumption .of a supply made within six months of its discontinuance, where the requisitioning consumer was not himself the consumer of the supply at the time of its discontinuance ; (b) not to comply with any requisition for municipal purposes in-valving (otherwise than by way of l'eplacement) any new works or additions to or ~ alterations of works already installed. (2) To obtain any permission required under sub-section ·(1), the licensee· shall make an application to the Provincial <Government in such form as the Provincial Government may notify in the Official Gazette in this· behalf. (3) 0n an application being made under sub-section (2), the Provincial Government may either refuse the permission sought or grant it either absolutely or subject to such con- ditions as it may think fit to impose and may also call for such further particulars relating to the application as it may :require.