"road" means any road or street or part thereof and in-
 cludes all bridges, culverts, embankments, approaches,
 drains, verges, pavement, herls, footpaths, .parapets and
 other works or things forming part of any road or
 street;
 "tree" means a tree, bush or shrub;
 "undertaking" means the Company's electricity undertak-
 ing in the State;
 "unit" means one kilowatt-hour, as registered on a meter
 provided by the Company;
 The singular includes the plural and vice versa, and the
masculine includes the feminine.


 3. Subject as hereinafter provided, the Company shall
have a sole and exclusive licem e to generate, transmit, distribute
and sell electrie.i!y in the State during the period of 60 years
nrxt following the Appointed Day.
 4. With the consent of the Minister the Company may
authorise in writing any person during the whole or any part
of the period of the licence to generate, transmit, distribute and
sell electricity upon the terms and conditions and within the
area specified in such authority (any person so authorised being
hereinafter referred to as "a sub-licencee").
 5. (1) During the continuance of the licence no person
except the Company shall generate (save for his own consump-
tion and use), distribute or sell electricity within the State
provided that a sub-licensee shall be at liberty, during the
period stated in the written authority granted to him by
the Company, to generate, distribute and sell electricity upon
the terms and conditions and within the area specified in such
authority.
 (2) Any person contravening the provisions of sub-sec-
tion (1) of this section shall be guilty of an offence and shall
be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding two
hundred and fifty dollars or to imprisonment for a period not
exceeding six months, and in addition thereto lie may ba ordered
by any Court having summary jurisdiction to dismantle his
equipment at his own expense within such time as such Court
may prescribe and, if he shall fail to obey the order of such
Court within the prescribed time, such Court shall order the
equipment to be forthwith dismantled by the Company and
shall order such person to pay to the Company its reasonable
charges for dismantling such equipment.


Grant of licence.



Sub-licences.





No person shall
generate etc.
electricity.


No 14.


Electricity Supply.


1973.