Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) Act, 1962

In short

This law amends previous Electricity (Supply) Acts to increase the financial limits for electricity supply development and to provide funds for expanding electricity distribution, especially in rural areas.

What it regulates

The total expenditure allowed for the Electricity Supply Board (the Board) for general purposes.
The provision of funds for installing electricity distribution systems in rural areas that are not yet electrified.
The provision of funds for further development and improvements in rural areas that already have electricity.
Amendments to sections of the Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) Act, 1958.

Who it concerns

The Electricity Supply Board (the Board).
The Minister for Transport and Power.
The Minister for Finance.
Rural areas, both non-electrified and already electrified.

Key points

The total expenditure for the Board's general purposes (excluding rural electrification) cannot exceed one hundred and thirty-five million pounds.
The Minister for Finance can advance funds to the Board for capital expenditure on distribution systems in non-electrified rural areas, up to a total of ninety thousand pounds.
The Minister for Finance can advance three-quarters of the capital expenditure for connecting premises and improving systems in already electrified rural areas, until the total expenditure for rural electrification reaches thirty-seven million pounds or April 17, 1967, whichever is earlier.
Not more than seventy-five pounds can be advanced for connecting a house used as a dwelling to an electricity distribution system in electrified rural areas.

Legal text

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(1)of section 2 of the Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) Act, 1954 , shall be construed as if that sum were substituted for the sum mentioned therein. Provision of moneys for electricity distribution systems in non-electrified rural areas. 4.—

(1)The Minister for Finance may, on the recommendation of the Minister, advance to the Board, as and when requested by the Board to do so, the whole of the capital expenditure of the Board in the provision and installation of systems of distribution for electricity at ten thousand volts in rural areas which have not been, and, but for the advances provided for under this section, would not be, electrified by the Board until, but only until, the total of such expenditure of the Board amounts to the sum of ninety thousand pounds.

(2)All moneys advanced to the Board under the foregoing subsection of this section shall be issued from and paid out of the Central Fund or the growing produce thereof.

(3)The moneys advanced to the Board under this section by the Minister for Finance shall be repaid to the Central Fund out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas at such time or times as the Minister for Finance shall direct. Provision of moneys for further development in electrified rural areas. 5.—

(1)Subject to subsection

(2)of this section, the Minister for Finance may, on the recommendation of the Minister, and until, but only until, the time when the total expenditure of the Board for the electrification of rural areas amounts to the sum of thirty-seven million pounds or the 17th day of April, 1967, whichever is the earlier, advance to the Board, as and when requested by the Board to do so three-quarters of the capital expenditure incurred by the Board, whether before or after the passing of this Act, after the 17th day of April, 1962, in connecting premises to systems of distribution for electricity in rural areas to which a supply of electricity has previously been extended, and three-quarters of the capital expenditure incurred by the Board, whether before or after the passing of this Act, after the said 17th day of April, 1962, in improving systems of distribution for electricity in rural areas to which a supply of electricity has previously been extended.

(2)Not more than seventy-five pounds shall be advanced to the Board under subsection

(1)of this section in respect of the capital expenditure incurred by the Board in connecting a house used as a dwelling to a system of distribution for electricity.

(3)All moneys advanced to the Board under the foregoing subsection of this section shall be issued from and paid out of the Central Fund or the growing produce thereof.

(4)The moneys advanced to the Board under this section by the Minister for Finance shall be repaid to the Central Fund out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas at such time or times as the Minister for Finance shall direct. Short title, collective citation and construction. 6.—

(1)This Act may be cited as the Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) Act, 1962.

(2)The Acts and this Act may be cited together as the Electricity (Supply) Acts, 1927 to 1962.

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