Electricity (Supply) Act 1926

Electricity (Supply) Act 1926

Act of Parliament
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act to amend the law with respect to the supply of electricity.
Citation	16 & 17 Geo. 5. c. 51
Introduced by	Wilfrid Ashley, Minister of Transport, 10 March 1926 (Commons)
Territorial extent	England and Wales, Scotland (excluding Northern Ireland)
Dates
Royal assent	15 December 1926
Repealed	31 March 1990
Other legislation
Amends	Electric Lighting Acts 1882 to 1909
Repealed by	Electricity Act 1989
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

The Electricity (Supply) Act 1926 (16 & 17 Geo. 5. c. 51) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which amended the law on the supply of electricity. Its long title is: ‘An Act to amend the law with respect to the supply of electricity’.^[1] This Act was construed as one with the Electricity (Supply) Acts 1882 to 1922, and was cited as the Electricity (Supply) Acts 1882 to 1926. It established a statutory body, the Central Electricity Board (CEB), ‘with the duty of supplying electricity to authorised undertakers’ and to ‘appoint consultative technical committees’. It provided for the Electricity Commissioners to prepare and transmit to the CEB ‘electricity schemes’ for relevant areas, and which identified the most efficient ‘selected’ generating stations which were to be used to generate electricity for the Board. The Act provided for ‘main transmission line’ interconnections between selected stations and undertakings; and to standardise the frequency of generation; and other purposes. The provisions of the Act enabled the construction of the National Grid.