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HIMACHAL PRADESH ELECTRICITY REGULATORY
COMMISSION
NOTIFICATION
Shimla the 2005
No.
HPERC/ 401
The Himachal Pradesh
Electricity Regulatory Commission,
in exercise of the powers conferred by
sections
181 (1) and 181 (2) (za & zb) read with section 57 (1), 57 (2), 59
(1) and 86 (1) (i)
sub-section (1) of section 181 and
Clauses
(za)
and (zb)
of sub-section (2) of section 181 read with sub-section
(1) of section 57, section 58, section 59 and clause (i) of
sub-section (1) of section 86 of the Electricity Act, 2003
(36 of 2003) and all other powers enabling it in this behalf,
in consultation with the licensees and the persons likely to
be affected, hereby makes the following regulations namely:-
REGULATIONS
1.
Short title, extent and commencement-
(1)These
regulations shall be called the Himachal Pradesh Electricity
Regulatory Commission (Distribution Licensees' Standards of
Performance) Regulations, 2005.
(2)
These regulations shall be applicable
to all distribution
Distribution Licensees, and other deemed
licensees engaged in
supply
distribution of electricity
to the
public within the
State of Himachal Pradesh.
(3)
These regulations shall come into force
from the date of their publication in the Rajpatra,
Himachal Pradesh.
2.
Definitions .-
In
this
these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires,-
(1)
"Act" means the Electricity Act 2003 (Central
Act No.36 of 2003);
(2)
“area
of
supply” means the area within which a distribution licensee
is authorized by his license to supply electricity;
(3)
“Commission” means the Himachal Pradesh
Electricity Regulatory Commission;
constituted under section 17 of
the Electricity Regulatory Commissions Act, 1998 and which continues
to be so under section 82 of the Electricity Act, 2003 (no.36 of
2003);
(4)
“call centre” means the place or
office set up by the distribution licensee to register complaints;
(5)
“control
centre” means a centre established for compilation,
evaluating, ranking and analyzing the performance of ‘responsibility
centres’ established at the Headquarters
of the
distribution
licensee;
(6)
“distribution
system” means the system of wires and associated facilities between
the delivery points on the transmission lines or the generating
station connection and the point of connection to the installation
of the consumers and shall also include electric line, sub-station
and electrical plant that are primarily maintained for the purpose
of distributing electricity in the area of supply of such
distribution licensee notwithstanding that such line, sub-station or
electrical plant are high pressure cables or overhead lines or
associated with such high pressure cables or overhead lines; or used
incidentally for the purposes of transmitting electricity for
others.
(7)
“distribution
licensee”,
means a licensee authorized
to operate and maintain a distribution system for supplying
electricity to the consumers in the areas of supply and includes a
person deemed to be a licensee under section 14 of the Act;
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