Electricity (Supply) Act 1927
Investigations and surveys by the Board.
28.—(1) The Board may conduct such investigations, experiments, and trials as the Board thinks fit for the improvement of the methods of transmission, distribution, and supply of electricity or of the utilisation of fuel, water power, or other means of generating electricity and may establish and maintain a testing laboratory for the testing and standardisation of electrical instruments.
(2) The Board may take such measures as, in the opinion of the Board, are calculated to advance the exploitation of water power in Saorstát Eireann and may organise and carry out national power and hydrometric survey work and make or arrange for the making of such maps, plans, sections, and estimates as are necessary for any of the purposes aforesaid.
(3) The Board may enter on any lands or premises for the purpose of doing thereon or on any other lands or premises all or any of the things which the Board is by this section authorised to do or making thereon or on any other lands or premises any inquiry, investigation, or examination preliminary or incidental to the doing of any such thing.
Annotations
Modifications (not altering text):
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References to "transmission system of the Board" construed by European Communities (Internal Market in Electricity) Regulations 2000 (S.I. No. 445 of 2000), reg. 25(1)(d), (e) as inserted (3.12.2022) by European Union (internal Market in Electricity) (No. 5) Regulations 2022 (S.I. No. 619 of 2022), reg. 3(d)(iii).
Grid code and distribution code.
25. (1) For the purposes of Part V of the Act of 1999—
(a) any existing duty, obligation or requirement on the Board in respect of the transmission system [owned by the Board] which relates to functions conferred on the transmission system operator by or under these Regulations shall be regarded as a duty, obligation or requirement on the transmission system operator, and not on the Board.
(b) any existing duty, obligation or requirement on the Board in relation to the operation of the distribution system which is transferred to the distribution system operator by or under these Regulations shall be regarded as a duty, obligation or requirement on the distribution system operator, licensed under section 14(1)(g) of the Act of 1999, [...]
(c) any existing duty, obligation or requirement on the Board in relation to the ownership of the transmission system which is transferred to the transmission system owner by or under these Regulations shall be regarded as a duty, obligation or requirement on the transmission system owner, licensed under section 14(1)(f) of the Act of 1999, and Part V of the Act of 1999 shall be construed accordingly.
[(d) any duty, obligation or requirement of the Board in relation to ownership of the transmission system shall be treated as a duty, obligation or requirement of the transmission system operator, licenced under section 14(1)(e) of the Act of 1999, insofar as it relates to the transmission system owned by the transmission system operator, and
(e) any reference to the transmission system of the Board shall, with the necessary modification, be construed as a reference to the transmission system of the transmission system operator,]
and Part V of the Act of 1999 shall be construed accordingly.
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Certain functions of Board regarded as functions of Distribution System Operator (1.01.2009) by European Communities (Internal Market in Electricity) (Electricity Supply Board) Regulations 2008 (S.I. No. 280 of 2008), reg. 24(b), in effect as per regs. 1(3), 8(1) and notice in Iris Oifigiúil no. 105 of 2008 published 30.12.2008.
Certain functions of the Board to be regarded as functions of the Distribution System Operator
24. Any function of the Board under— ...
(b) section 19, 20, 27, 28, 44, 47, 51, 58, 59, 62, 84 or 100 of the Electricity (Supply) Act 1927 (No. 27 of 1927),
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which is necessary for the discharge of the Distribution System Operator’s functions under the Act of 1999 or the European Communities (Internal Market in Electricity) Regulations 2000 to 2007 shall, to that extent, be regarded as a function of the Distribution System Operator and not of the Board, other than where it is also necessary for the Board to discharge its functions as Distribution System Owner in which case that function shall be a function of both the Board and the Distribution System Operator.
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Certain functions of Board regarded as functions of transmission system operator (20.06.2001) by European Communities (Internal Market in Electricity) Regulations 2000 (S.I. No. 445 of 2000), in effect as per regs. 1(2)(b), 3 and notice in Iris Oifigiúil no. 50 of 2001 published 22.06.2001.
Functions of transmission system operator.
8. ...
(2) Any function of the Board under— ...
(b) section 19, 20, 27, 28, 44, 47, 51, 58, 59, 62, 84 or 100 of the Electricity (Supply) Act 1927
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which is necessary for the discharge of the transmission system operator's functions under these Regulations shall, to that extent, be regarded as a function of the transmission system operator and not of the Board, other than where it is also necessary for the Board to discharge its functions as transmission system owner in which case that function shall be a function of both the Board and the transmission system operator.