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# Electricity Act 1947

## Title and introductory text {#prelims}

Electricity Act 1947
1947 c.54
An Act to provide for the establishment of a British Electricity Authority and Area Electricity Boards and for the exercise and performance by that Authority and those Boards and the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board of functions relating to the supply of electricity and certain other matters; for the transfer to the said Authority or any such Board as aforesaid of property, rights, obligations and liabilities of electricity undertakers and other bodies; to amend the law relating to the supply of electricity; to make certain consequential provision as to income tax; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.
[13th August 1947]

## 1 {#section-1}

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## 3 Constitution of Central Authority and Area Boards. {#section-3}

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## 64 Provisions as to regulations and orders. {#section-64}

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(3) All orders and regulations made under this Act, not being orders or regulations required to be laid before Parliament in draft or orders subject to special parliamentary procedure, shall be laid before Parliament immediately after they are made and if either House, within a period of forty days beginning with the day on which any such order or regulations is or are so laid before it, resolves that the order or regulations be annulled, the order or regulations shall thereupon cease to have effect, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder or to the making of any new order or regulations.
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## 67 Interpretation. {#section-67}

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## FIRST SCHEDULE Area Electricity Boards {#schedule-FIRST}

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## SECOND SCHEDULE . . . {#schedule-SECOND}



## THIRD SCHEDULE . . . {#schedule-THIRD}



## FOURTH SCHEDULE . . . {#schedule-FOURTH}



## FIFTH SCHEDULE . . . {#schedule-FIFTH}