Part IELECTRICITY SUPPLY
Introductory
2Consumers' committees
1
The Director shall establish committees, to be known as consumers' committees, for the purposes of this Part.
2
Each consumers' committee shall be appointed for an area consisting of—
a
the authorised area of a public electricity supplier; or
b
if the Secretary of State so determines, the authorised areas of two or more such suppliers;
and any reference in this Part to the allocation of a public electricity supplier to a consumers' committee shall be construed accordingly.
3
Each consumers' committee shall consist of—
a
a chairman appointed by the Director after consultation with the Secretary of State; and
b
such other members, not being less than ten or more than twenty, as the Director after consultation with the chairman may from time to time appoint.
4
An appointment of a person to hold office as the chairman of a consumers' committee shall be for a term not exceeding four years.
5
Subject to subsection (4) above, the chairman and other members of a consumers' committee shall hold and vacate office in accordance with the terms of the instruments appointing them and shall, on ceasing to hold office, be eligible for re-appointment.
6
The provisions of Schedule 2 to this Act shall have effect with respect to each of the consumers' committees.
7
In this Part “public electricity supplier” and “authorised area”, in relation to such a supplier, have the meanings given by section 6(9) below.