HC Deb 20 December 1946 vol 431 c2347

"to provide for the establishment of a British Electricity Authority and Area Electricity Boards and for the exercise and performance by that Authority and those Boards and the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board of functions relating to the supply of electricity and certain other matters; for the transfer to the said Authority or any such Board as aforesaid of property, rights, obligations and liabilities of electricity undertakers and other bodies; to amend the law relating to the supply of electricity; to make certain consequential provision as to income tax; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid," presented by Mr. Shinwell; supported by Mr. Herbert Morrison, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. West-wood, the Attorney-General and Mr. Gaitskell; to be read a Second time upon Tuesday, 21st January, and to be printed. [Bill 25.]