35.—(1) From and after the expiration of six months from the passing of this Act or such further period as may be fixed by the Board for any particular area, no person (other than the Board) shall sell electricity or supply electricity for sale unless he is an authorised undertaker or is a person authorised by a permit granted under this Act F20[or a licence granted under section 14 of the Electricity Regulation Act 1999,] to supply electricity F21[, or is the holder of a registration granted under Part IIIA of the Electricity Regulation Act 1999 or is a person of a class specified by order under section 28AC(2)(a)(i) of that Act or is engaging in a class of electricity activity specified by order under 28AC(2)(a)(ii) of that Act].

(2) No authorised undertaker shall sell electricity or supply electricity for sale outside his area of supply save in so far as he is authorised so to do by or under the Act or special or other order by virtue of which he is an authorised undertaker or by or under this Act and no authorised undertaker shall sell electricity or supply electricity for sale otherwise than in accordance with such Act or special or other order as aforesaid and this Act.

(3) No person who is for the time being the holder of a permit to supply electricity granted under this Act shall sell electricity or supply electricity for sale otherwise than in accordance with such permit.

(4) The Board shall serve on every person who to the knowledge of the Board sells electricity or supplies electricity for sale in contravention of this section a notice in writing requiring such person to cease within fourteen days from the date of the service of such notice to sell electricity or supply electricity for sale as aforesaid.

(5) Every person who shall sell electricity or supply electricity for sale in contravention of this section after the expiration of fourteen days from the service on him of a notice under the foregoing sub-section shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to imprisonment with or without hard labour for any term not exceeding six months or, at the discretion of the court, to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds together with, in the case of a continuing offence, a further fine of ten pounds for every day the offence continues, or to both such imprisonment and such fine.