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16. (1) The State government shall constitute a 1[State electricity
Consultative Council] for the State, and in cases to
which sections 6 and 7 apply, the State Government concerned
shall constitute such one or more 1[State Electricity Consulative
Council] or Councils and for such areas as they may by agreement
determine.
(2) The 1[State Electricity Consultative
Council] shall consist of 2[the members of the
Board and, if there are any Generating Company or Generating
Companies operating in the State, one representative of
the Generating Company or each of the Generating Companies
to be nominated by the Generating Company concerned.] and
such other persons being not less than 3[eight]
and not more than fifteen as the State Government or the
State Governments concerned may appoint after consultation
with such representatives or bodies representative of the
following interests as the State Government of the State
Governments concerned thinks or think fit, that is to say,
local self-government, electricity supply industry, commerce,
industry, transport, agriculture,4[labour employed
in the electricity supply industry and consumers of electricity],
but so that there shall be at least one member representing
each such interest in the Council.
(3)
The Chairman of the Board shall be ex officio Chairman of
the 1[State Electricity Consultative Council].
(4)
The 1[State Electricity Consultative Council] shall meet
at least once in every three months.
(5)
The functions of the 1[State Electricity Consultative Council]
shall be as follows:-
(i) to
advise 5[the Board and the Generating Company or Generating
Companies, if any, operating in the State] on major questions
of policy and major schemes;
(ii) to review the progress and the work
of 5[the Board and the Generating Company or Generating
companies, if any, operating in the State] from time to
time;
(iii) to consider such other matters as
5[the Board and the Generating Company or Generating Companies,
if any, operating in the State] may place before it; and
(iv) to consider such matters as the State
government may by rules prescribe.
6[(6)
The Board shall place before the State Electricity Consultative
Council the annual financial statement and supplementary
statement, if any, and shall take into consideration any
comments made on such statement in the said Council before
submitting the same to the State government under section
61.]
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State Electricity Consultative Council.
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17. (1) The State Government may from time to time constitute
for such areas as it may determine Local Advisory Committees,
consisting of such number of persons as it may think fit
in each cases and on such terms and conditions as may be
prescribed.
(2) The Board may if it thinks fit consult
the Local Advisory Committees concerned on any business
coming before it, and shall so do in respect of such business
as the State Government may by general or special order
in this behalf specify or when required by the regulations
so to do.
(3)
The Chairman of the Board or such other member of the Board
as he may nominate in this behalf shall be ex officio Chairman
of a Local Advisory Committee.
(4)
Local Advisory Committees shall meet at such intervals as
may be prescribed, and for the transaction of urgent business
on such other occasions as the Chairman of the Board may
require.
(5)
The number of members necessary to constitute a quorum at
a meeting of a Local Advisory Committee shall be such as
the State Government when constituting the Committee may
specify.
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Local Advisory Committee.
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1
Subs. By Act 101 of 1956 s. 8, for “State electricity Council”
2 Subs. By Act 115 of 1976 s. 9 for “the members of the Board”
(w.e.f. 8-10-1976)
3 Subs. By Act 30 of 1966 s. 4, for “seven”.
4 Subs. By Act 101 of 1956, s. 8, for “and labour employed
in the electricity supply industry”.
5 Subs. By Act 115 of 1976, s. 9, for “the Board” (w.e.f.
8-10-1976).
6 Subs. By Act 30 of 1966, s. 4, for sub-section (6)
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