Section 37: Power for Board to make rules.–(1) The 3[Federal Electricity Board may make rules] to

37. Power for Board to make rules.–(1) The 3[Federal Electricity Board may make rules] to regulate the generation transmission, supply and use of energy and, generall y, to carry out the purposes and objects of this Act. (2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may___ (a) prescribe the form of applications for licenses and the payments to be made in respect thereof; (b) regulate the publication of notices; (c) prescribe the manner in which objections with reference to any application under Part II are to be made; (d) provide for the preparation and submission of accounts by licensees in a specified form; (e) provide for the securing of a regular, constant and sufficient supply of energy by licensees to consumers and for the testing at various parts of the system of the regularity and sufficiency of such supply and for the examination of the records of such tests by consumers; (f) provide for the protection of persons and property from injury by reason of contact with, or the proximity of, or by reason of the defective or dangerous condition of, any appliance or apparatus used in the generation, transmission, supply or use of energy; (g) for the purposes of electric traction regulate the employment of insulated returns, or of uninsulated metallic returns of low resistance, in order to prevent fusion or injurious electrolytic action of or on metallic pipes, structures or substances, and to minimise, as far as is reasonably practicable, injurious interference with the electric wires, supply-lines and apparatus of parties other than the owners of the electric traction system, or with the currents therein, whether the earth is used as a return or not; 1The words “otherwise than by the expiry of the term of office of the member referred to in clause (e) of sub-section (2)” omitted by Ordinance XXI of 1960, s. 3 and 2nd Sch., (with effect from the 14th October, 1955). 2Subs. by the Federal Laws (Revision and Declaration) Ordinance, 1981 s. 3, and Second Sch., for “Electricity Board” which had been amended by A. O., 1964, Art. 2 and Sch. 3Subs. by Ord. XXVII of 1981, s. 3 and Second Schedule for “Electricity Board may make rules for the whole of the Province or any part thereof” which had been amended by Act X of 1937, s. 4, A. O., 1949 and A. O., 1964, Art. 2 and Sch., to read as above. See the Indian Electricity Rules, 1937, published with the Notification of the G. of 1. (Indurstries and Labour Department), No. F. 601, dated the 27th March, 1937. These rules, though made by the G.G. in C., are to be deemed to have been made by the Central Electricity Board: see the Rules and Regulations Continuance Act, 1937 (XXIV of 1937). 35 (h) provide for preventing telegraph -lines and magnetic observatories or laboratories from being injuriously affected by the generation, transmission, supply or use of energy; (i) prescribe the qualifications to be required of Electric Inspectors; (j) authorize any Electric Inspector or other officer of a specified rank and class to enter, inspect and examine any place, carriage or vessel in which he has reason to believe any appliance or apparatus used in the generation, transmission, supply or use of energy to be, and to carry out tests therein, and to prescribe the facilities to be given to such inspectors or officers for the purposes of such examinations and tests; 1[*] (k) authorize and regulate the levy of fees for any such testing or inspection and, generally, for the services of Electric Inspectors under this Act; 2[and 2(l) provide for any matter which is to be or may be prescribed. 2(3) Any rules made in pursuance of clause (f) or clause (h) of sub-section (2) shall be binding on the 3[Government]]. 4[(4)] In making any rule under this Act the 5[Federal Electricity Board] may direct that every breach thereof shall be punishable with fine which may extend to three hundred rupees, and, in the case of a continuing breach with a further daily fine which may extend to fifty rupees.

Effective date: 1910-01-01

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