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PUBLIC UTILITIES (EMERGENCY POWERS) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1972 - SECT 1

1.(1) Where, on an application made to it by any gas or
electricity undertakers, it appears to the Ministry of Commerce that, for the
purpose, in a case of emergency, of securing or restoring the supply or
distribution of gas or electricity to the community or any part of the
community, it is necessary for those undertakers to enter upon and carry out
works on any land, the Ministry may authorise those undertakers to exercise
the powers set out in section 3.

(2) In this section "gas undertakers" means undertakers as defined in [Article
2(2) of the Gas (Northern Ireland) Order 1977] and "electricity undertakers"
means [the Northern Ireland Electricity Service].

S.2 rep. by 1973 NI 2 art.60(2) sch.4

© 1972 Crown Copyright

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