Electricity Act 1947

1947 CHAPTER 54 10 and 11 Geo 6

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]

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Act except ss. 1(3), 67, 69, and in so far as they relate to any matter affecting one of the Boards and the Generating Board or an Area Board, ss. 1(4)(5), 2(7), 4(2)–(7), 11(2), 19 repealed (S.) by Electricity (Scotland) Act 1979 (c. 11), Sch. 10, 12

C2 Act amended (E.W.) by Electricity (Amendment) Act 1961 (c. 8), Sch. and (S.) by Electricity (Scotland) Act 1979 (c. 11), s. 20

C3 Act, except as specified, repealed by Electricity Act 1989 (c. 29, SIF 44:1), s. 112(3)(4), Sch. 17, para. 35(1), Sch. 18(with savings for ss. 46, 54 in ss. 104, 112(3), Sch. 14 para. 1(1)(e), Sch. 17 para. 30(1) (the repeal being in force 31.3.1990 by S.I. 1990/117, art. 3(b) )

C4 Act amended by Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), s. 77, Sch. 15 para. 2

C5 Act amended by Energy Act 1983 (c. 25, SIF 44:1), ss. 15, 25, Sch. 1 para. 1, Sch. 3 para. 2(1)

C6 Act applied (S.)(prosp) by Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c. 14), ss. 111(9), 119(2) (with s. 118(1)(2)(4))

C7 Act applied (S.) (1.4.1992) by Valuation and Rating (Scotland) Act 1956 (c. 60), s. 22(3), (as substituted by Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c. 14), s. 117(1), Sch. 13, para. 10 (with s. 118(1)(2)(4))); S.I. 1992/818, art. 2(a)

Commencement Information

I1 Act wholly in force at Royal Assent.