Section 21: Restrictions on licensee’s controlling or interfering with use of energy. –(1) A licensee

21. Restrictions on licensee’s controlling or interfering with use of energy. –(1) A licensee shall not be entitled to prescribe any special form of appliance for utilising energy supplied by him, or, save as provided 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: 2[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 the safety or efficient working of the electric supply -lines or works of the licensee or with the supply by the licensee of energy to any other person: Provided further that, if the licensee requires a consum er, desiring to use, or using, the energy for running an electric motor excepting single phase motor for domestic use, to install a capacitor therewith, the consumer shall not so use the energy without installing the capacitor to the satisfaction of the licensee who, shall, if so required by the consumer, cause the consumer to be supplied with the capacitor on payment of its cost.] 1Subs. by the Electricity (Amdt.) Ordinance, 1979 (LXII of 1979), s. 3, for the original section 20 which had previously been amended by various enactments. 2Subs. by the Electricity (Amdt) Ordinance 1979 (LXII of 1979) s. 4, for the original Proviso. 1[(2) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (1), a licensee may, with the previous sanction of the 2[Provincial Government], given-after consulting the local authority, where the licensee is not the local authority, make conditions not inconsistent with this Act or with his license or with any rules made under this Act, to regulate his relations with persons who are or 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 2[Provincial Government] on application made by the licensee befo re such date as the l[Provincial 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 2[Provincial Government] may, after the like consultation, cancel any condition or part of a condition previously sanctioned under sub- section (2) after giving to the licensee not less than one month’s notice in writing of its intention so to do.] 3[(4)] Where any difference or dispute arises as to whether a license e 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 Electric Inspector, and decided by him or, if the licensee or consumer so desires, determined by arbitration.

Effective date: 1910-01-01

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