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Electricity Act 1957

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43Short title, citation, commencement and extent

(1)This Act may be cited as the Electricity Act, 1957 ; and the Electricity Act, 1947, and this Act may be cited together as the Electricity Acts, 1947 and 1957.

(2)The Electricity (Scotland) Acts, 1943 to 1954, and this Act, so far as it relates to Scotland, may be cited together as the Electricity (Scotland) Acts, 1943 to 1957.

(3)Sections five to twenty-two, section twenty-four, section twenty-eight and section forty-two of this Act shall come into operation on the vesting date.

(4)The following provisions of this Act shall not extend to Scotland, that is to say.—

(a)subsection (1) of section five and Part I of the First Schedule to this Act; and

(b)subsection (3) of the last preceding section, in so far as it relates to the enactments specified in Part II of the Fifth Schedule to this Act.

(5)This Act shall not extend to Northern Ireland.

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