Keyword(s):
Statutory Order, Tariff
TAMIL NADU ACT NO. 1 OF 1979.*
THE TAMIL NADU REVISION OF TARIFF RATES
ON SUPPLY OF ELECTRICAL ENERGY ACT,
1978.
[Received the assent of the Governor on the 23rd February
1979, first published in the Tamil Nadu Government
Gazette Extraordinary on the 3rd March 1979 (Masi
19, Kalayukti (2010-Tiruvalluvar Andu)).]
An Act to provide for the revision of tariff rates
leviable on electrical energy supplied in this
State by the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board.
BE it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Tamil
Nadu in the Twenty-ninth Year of the Republic of India
as follows :-
sion of Tariff Rates on Supply of Electrical Energy Act, z:rrnrnen*
- (1) This Act may be called the Tamil Nadu Revi-short title
1978.
(2) It shall be deemed to have come into force on
the 1st day of March 1978. - In this Act, unless thc context otherwise requires,-~efinitions.
(a) “Statutory order ” means the order for the levy
of revised tariffs and the conditions of supply of electrical
energy by the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board made under
section 3 of the Tamil Nadu Essential Articles Control
and Requisitioning (Temporary Powers) Act, 1949
(Tamil Nadu Act XXIX of 1949) and published in Noti-
fication No. I1 (2)/PWE/4329 (e)/74 in Part 11-Section 2
of the Tamil Nadu Governmenl Gazette (Extraordinary),
dated the 9th October, 1974 and includes any amendment
made to the said order for the time being in force ;
(b) “tariff” means the rate of tariff leviable upon
the consumption of any electrical energy in this State
supplied by the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board and as
specified in the Schedule to this Act ;
- For Statement of Objects and Reasons, see TamilNadu Govern-
ment Gazette Extraordinary, dated the 12th September 1978, Part IV
-Section 1, Page 477.
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(c) the words and expres$ions used and’not defined
in this Act but defined in the Tamil Nadu Essential Articles
Control and Requisitioning (Temporary Powers) Act,
1949 (Tamil Nadu Act XXIX of 1949) or in the statutory
order shall have the meanings respectively assigned to
them in the said Act or in the said statutory order.
Tariff rates 3. Notwithstanding anything contained in the Tamil
for
of electrical
energy.
Nadu Essential Articles Control and Requisitioning
(Temporary Powers) Act, 1949 (Tamil Nadu Act XXIX
of 1949), the tariff rates payable to the Tamil Nadu Elec-
tricity .Board by any consumer on the electrical energy
supplied by the Board shall be as specified in the Schedule
to this Act.
Power of the 4. The State Government may, after taking into
State Govern- account the cost of production of energy, and such other
ment to amend matters as may be prescribed, by notification, amend the
the Schedule. provisions of the Schedule to this Act.
Repeal. 5. (1) The statutory order in so far as it relates to
tariff rates on supply of electrical energy for agricultural
and non-agricultural purpose is hereby repealed.
(2) The provisions of the TamiI Naau General
Clauses Act, 1891.(Tamil Nadu Act I of 1891), shall apply
to the repeal of the said statutory order, as they apply
to’the repeal of a Tamil Nadu Acr.
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