Electricity Supply (Special Powers) Act, 1926

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Mutual assistance by authorised undertakers and others.

2.—(1) During the period hereinafter mentioned the persons hereinafter mentioned may, with the approval of the Minister, and shall, if so required by the Minister, enter into and carry into effect arrangements for their mutual assistance during the said period in regard to the giving and taking of a supply of electricity and the distribution and supply of the electricity so taken and any matter or thing incidental to or connected with such giving, taking, distribution, or supply.

(2) The persons who may or shall (as the case may be) enter into such arrangements as aforesaid, are—

(a) any two or more authorised undertakers, or

(b) any one or more authorised undertakers, and any one or more owners of railway, tramway, or other generating stations.

(3) The period during which any such arrangement as aforesaid may or shall (as the case may be) be entered into and carried into effect is the period from the passing of this Act to the time at which a supply of electricity produced under statutory authority by means of hydraulic power derived from the waters of the River Shannon becomes available to all the authorised undertakers entering into the arrangement.

(4) Where an arrangement for mutual assistance is entered into under this section in pursuance of a requirement of the Minister, the terms and conditions of the arrangement shall be subject to the approval of the Minister, and shall, in default of agreement between the parties thereto, be settled by the Minister.