Law Relating to Electricity in India

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Description
An Exhaustive Section-wise Commentary on the Electricity Act, 2003
Alongwith Central and States Act, Rules, Regulations, Notifications and Model Forms
Electricity has crept forward all unconsciously through the outpost of the past, out-manoeuvred prejudice and overrun precedent. Today it has become an everyday factor in facilitating industrial operations and in adding to the comforts and conveniences of domestic life. Truly, the age in which we live may be called an age of electricity.
No doubt there exist in the market some books dealing with the subject of electrical energy. But almost all of them mainly deal with its technical side. There appeared to be a great need for an exhaustive and up-to-date work in which both legal and technical branches of the subject are fully dealt with. In this volume where the legal aspect has been given the importance it deserves, the technical aspect has not been neglected.
The aim of this work is to provide the lawyer as well as the layman user of electricity and also the staff of an electricity undertaking, all essential points concerning the law and practice relating to the supply and use of electrical energy.
I have, amongst other things, included in this book the Indian Electricity Act, 1910 (IX of 1910), the Indian Electricity (Amendment) Act, 1937, the Rules and Regulation Continuance Act, 1937, the British Electric Supply Acts, Extracts from relevant Acts, the Indian Electricity Rules, 1937, Notifications, Forms of licences, Specifications, Instructions, etc., issued by the several Provincial Governments in India. For purposes of easy reference, I have grouped all these Notifications, instructions, etc., relating to each Provincial Government in a separate appendix. There being a paucity of Indian case law on the subject, legal principles have been illustrated by English and Empire case law wherever necessary.
It is my hope that this book will serve as a vade mecam for all consulting engineers, local authorities, actual or prospective licensees, officials of the public works and the telegraph departments and the members of the Bench and Bar.
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Contents
The Electricity Act, 2003
Part I Preliminary
Part  II National Electricity Policy and Plan
Part  III Generation of Electricity
Part  IV Licensing
Part  V Transmission of Electricity
Part  VI Distrubution of Electricity
Part  VII Tariff
Part  VII Works
Part  IX Central Electricity Authority
Part  X Regulatory Commissions
Part  XI Appellate Tribunal for Electricity
Part  XII investigation and Enforcement
Part  XII Reorganisation of Board
Part  XIV Offences and Penalties
Part  XV Special Courts
Part  XVI Dispute Resolution
Part  XVII Other Provision
Part  XVII Miscellaneous
Appendix 1 Electricity Rules and Regulatuions
Appendix 2 Electricity Regulatory Commission Act, Rules and Regulation
Appendix 3 Allied Rules
Appendix 4 Relevant Act and Rules
Appendix 5 National Electricity Policy
Appendix 6 State Acts
Appendix 7 Model Forms
Table of Cases
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