HC Deb 22 December 1919 vol 123 c1157

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires— The expression "railway generating station "means a station for generating electricity for use solely or mainly by a railway company for traction purposes: The expression "dock generating station means a station for generating electricity for use solely or mainly by the owners of a dock undertaking for the purposes of the undertaking: The expression "private generating station" means a generating station for the generation of electricity for use solely or mainly on the owner's or joint owners' premises or for the purposes of his or their undertaking or undertakings or, where the owner is a subsidiary company, for the purposes of the undertaking of the principal company, in any case where the undertaking of the owner or the principal company is not an undertaking belonging to authorised undertakers or to a railway, tramway, canal, inland navigation, harbour or other undertaking providing facilities for or incidental to the transport of goods or passengers: The expression "main transmission lines" means all extra high-pressure cables and overhead lines (not being an essential part of an authorised undertaker's distribution system or the distribution system of a railway company) transmitting electricity from a generating station to any other generating station, or to a sub-station, together with any step-up and step-down transformers and switchgear necessary to, and used for, the control of such cables or overhead lines, and the buildings or such part thereof as may be required to accommodate such transformers and switch-gear:

Lords Amendments: Leave out the words "traction purposes," and insert instead thereof the words "the purposes of their undertaking."—Agreed to.

Leave out the words The expression dock generating station means a station for generating electricity for use solely or mainly by the owners of a dock undertaking for the purposes of the undertaking.

—Agreed to.

After the word "company" ["where the owner is a subsidiary company"], insert the words" solely or mainly on the premises or."—Agreed to.

After the word "company" ["distribution system of a railway company"], insert the words" or the owners of a dock undertaking."—Agreed to.