Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) Act, 1945
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Electric lines and the laying thereof. |
46.—(1) In this section the expression “the Act of 1927” means the Electricity (Supply) Act, 1927 (No. 27 of 1927). | |
(2) The expression “electric line” wherever it occurs in the Act of 1927 shall be construed and have effect and be deemed always to have had effect as meaning a wire or wires, conductor, or other means used for the purpose of conveying, transmitting, or distributing electricity and as including any transforming or other apparatus connected with any such wire or wires, conductor, or other means, and as including also any casing, coating, covering, tube, pipe, or insulator surrounding any such wire or wires, conductor, or other means or any such apparatus, and as including also any post, pole, stay, erection, or structure supporting any one or more of the things hereinbefore mentioned. | ||
(3) The word “lines” wherever it occurs in subsection (1) of section 51 of the Act of 1927 shall be construed and have effect and be deemed always to have had effect as meaning electric lines as defined in the next preceding subsection of this section. | ||
(4) The following provisions shall apply and have effect in relation to the notice required by subsection (3) of section 53 of the Act of 1927 to be served on the owner and the occupier of land or a building, that is to say:— | ||
(a) any such notice may, in lieu of being served personally on such owner or such occupier (as the case may be), be served on him by sending such notice by prepaid post in an envelope addressed to such owner or occupier (as the case may be) at his usual or last known address; and when so sent such notice shall be deemed to be served at the time when such envelope would be delivered in the ordinary course of post; | ||
(b) where for any reason the envelope mentioned in the next preceding paragraph of this subsection cannot be addressed in the manner provided by that paragraph, such envelope may be addressed to the person for whom it is intended in either or both of the following ways, that is to say:— | ||
(i) by the description “the owner” or “the occupier” (as the case may be) without stating his name, | ||
(ii) at the land or building to which the notice contained in such envelope relates. | ||
(5) The period of fourteen days mentioned in subsections (4) and (5) of section 53 of the Act of 1927 is hereby reduced to seven days, and for that purpose the words “seven days” are hereby substituted for the words “fourteen days” wherever the latter words occur in either of the said subsections. |