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SRI LANKA ELECTRICITY
Marginal Notes
1. This Act may be cited as the Sri Lanka Electricity Act, No. 20 of 2009.
2. Administration of the Act
3. Functions of the Commission.
4. Objectives.
5. General policy guidelines to be issued by the Minister.
6. Electrical inspectors.
7. Prohibition on unlicensed supply and c. of electricity.
8. Participating in a bidding process for the generation of electricity.
9. Eligibility to apply for a licence under section 11.
10. Exemptions.
11. Applications for licences.
12. Procedure prior to grant of licences.
13. Grant of licences.
14. Form of licence.
15. General conditions of licences.
16. Special conditions of generation licences.
17. Special conditions of transmission licences.
18. Special conditions of distribution licences.
19. Assignment of licences.
20. Revocation of licences.
21. Application for exemption.
22. Revocation and withdrawal of exemptions.
23. Provisions of this Part to be in addition to conditions.
24. Duties of transmission licensees.
25. Duties of distribution licensees.
26. Exemption from duty to connect and supply.
27. Power to recover expenditure.
28. Power to require security.
29. Additional terms.
30. Tariffs.
31. Provisions of Schedules to apply to licences.
32. Modification by agreement.
33. Modification without agreement.
34. Enforcement orders.
35. Procedure for making enforcement orders.
36. Effect of enforcement order.
37. Offences.
38. Power of Commission to vest management and control of undertaking of licensee in another authority or person.
39. The resolution of disputes.
40. Standard of performance for supply of electricity.
41. Standards of overall performance and efficient use of electricity.
42. Information with respect to levels of performance.
43. Provision of new generation plant and extension of existing plant.
44. Consent required for overhead and underground electric lines.
45. High voltage lines.
46. Annual Levy.
47. Moneys to be credited to the Fund of the Commission.
48. General Penalty
49. Extraction of electricity to be an offence.
50. Improper use of electricity to be an offence.
51. Offences by bodies of person.
52. Acquisition of property for Power Generation project.
53. Rules
54. Regulation
55. Removal of difficulties.
56. Purposes for which Regulations are made.
57. Minister to act in accordance with the criteria prescribed.
58. Register.
59. Returns and information.
60. Consumer Affairs Authority Act not to apply.
61. Interpretation.
62. Sinhala text to prevail in case of inconsistency.
63. Repeals and transitional provisions.
64. Provisions of this Act and regulations to prevail over regulations made under section 56 of the Ceylon Electricity Board Act.
65. Ceylon Electricity Board to be issued with provisional licence and licences.
66. Amendment to the Ceylon Electricity Board Act, No.17 of 1969.
67. Section - 67
68. Section - 68
69. Section - 69
70. Section - 70