# Electricity Act 1947, Introduction: Introductory text


An Act to provide for the establishment of a British Electricity Authority and Area Electricity Boards and for the exercise and performance by that Authority and those Boards and the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board of functions relating to the supply of electricity and certain other matters; for the transfer to the said Authority or any such Board as aforesaid of property, rights, obligations and liabilities of electricity undertakers and other bodies; to amend the law relating to the supply of electricity; to make certain consequential provision as to income tax; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.
[13th August 1947]

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/10-11/54/introduction (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-act-1947/introduction
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