Section No :  
Legislative Enactments
SRI LANKA ELECTRICITY ACT
Marginal Notes
1. Short title and dates of operation [4, 14 of 2025]
2. Objects of the Act [5, 14 of 2025]
3. [7, 14 of 2025]
4. Formulation of the national electricity policy as part of the national policy on energy [8, 14 of 2025]
5. Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka to be the Regulator of the Electricity Industry [9, 14 of 2025]
6. Register to be maintained by the Regulator
7. Powers of the Regulator to call for information
8. Electrical Inspectors
9. Eligibility for issue of the national system operator licence
10. Issue of licence to the National System Operator, the Board of Directors and functions [10, 14 of 2025]
11. Procurement [11, 14 of 2025]
12. captive generating plants and dedicated transmission lines
13. Open access
14. Eligibility to apply for national transmission network service provider licence [12, 14 of 2025]
15. Responsibilities of the National Transmission Network Service Provider & c.
16. Transmission lines and grid substations
17. Incorporation of Limited Companies under the Companies Act, No. 07 of 2007 and the vesting therein of the restructured activities of the Ceylon Electricity Board [13, 14 of 2025]
18. Preparation of the transfer plan [14, 14 of 2025]
19. Unlicenced generation and distribution of electricity to be an offence
20. Eligibility to apply for a licence [15, 14 of 2025]
21. Application for a licence and grant of licence
22. Assignment of licences
23. Modification or revocation of licences, and enforcement orders
24. Additional conditions for generation licensees [16, 14 of 2025]
25. Additional conditions for a distribution licensees
26. Power to recover expenditure
27. Power to require security
28. Statutory exemptions [17, 14 of 2025]
29. Tariffs [18, 14 of 2025]
30. Establishment of the Wholesale Electricity Market [19, 14 of 2025]
31. Policy guidelines relating to competition practices
32. Standard for supply of electricity
33. Standards of overall performance and efficient use of electricity
34. Information with respect to levels of performance
35. Annual Levy
36. Licence required for overhead and underground electricity lines
37. Acquisition of property for power generation and transmission projects
38. Establishment of the Power Sector Reforms Secretariat
39. Ceylon Electricity Board required to provide all data and information in its possession to the Power Sector Reforms Secretariat
40. Application of certain provisions of the Anti Corruption Act, No. 9 of 2023, to this Act [20, 14 of 2025]
41. Extraction of electricity to be an offence
42. Improper use of electricity to be an offence
43. General penalty
44. Offences by bodies of persons
45. Powers of entry, inspection and search
46. Resolution of disputes
47. Consumer Affairs Authority Act not to apply
48. Rules
49. Orders
50. Regulations
51. Repeals and Transitional Provisions
52. Interpretation [21, 14 of 2025]
53. Sinhala text to prevail in case of inconsistency