Ehlctricity Supply.


Company may
harness water.


Government to
assist Company
to acquire land
required by the
Company.


 (2) The amount of such compensation shall, failing agree-
ment, be determined by a single arbitrator appointed in accord-
ance with the provisions of sub-section (2) of section 30.
 (3) If by reason of the presence of any pole, electric line,
conductor, sub-station, pipeline, cable or other works or appara-
tus belonging to the Company which is alongside or under or
over any road any person shall be injured or shall suffer damage
to his property, the Company shall save harmless and keep in-
demnified, in respect of such injury or damage, the person by
whom such road is repairable.
 25. (1) The Company shall have the right to harness water
power throughout Saint Vincent at such sites as Government
reserves for public electrity supply purposes whether on Crown
or private lands without payment for water rights: Provided
that this right shall not be so employed as to prohibit the use of
existing water wheels or hydraulic turbines by their owners
nor to abrogate the right of anyone to use the water power of
that part of any river within the confines of his property, where
this has not previously been reserved for public electricity
supply purposes.
 (2) The Government shall reserve for the generation of
electric energy by hydro-electric works for public electricity
supply purposes the water power rights of-
 (i) The Colonarie River from its sources to the point
 where the intake to the Bellevue Canal is situated;
 (ii) The Richmond River from its sources to the point
 of intake to the headworks of the Richmond River
 hydro-electric scheme;
and no development for any other purpose of those stretches
of the above rivers or their tributaries shall be allowed.
 (3) The Government shall declare the watershed of the
Colonarie River and the Richmond River to be Forest reserve
and shall lake effective action to maintain, protect and improve
the forest cover in the areas reserved throughout the whole time
that this licence continues in force.

 26. The Government shall at request of the Company take
all such steps as may be available to it to assist the Company
in acquiring any land reasonably necessary to the Company in
connection with its business of generating, transmitting, distri-
buting and supplying electricity in the State.


No. 14.


1973.