§ Mr. John MooreI beg to move amendment No. 10, in page 7, line 22, at end insert—
'(6) An Electricity Board, in fixing tariffs and proposing prices or charges in accordance with section 7 or 8 above, shall not show undue preference to any person or class of persons and shall not exercise any undue discrimination against any person or class of persons.'.
§ Mr. SpeakerWith this it will be convenient to take Government amendments Nos. 16, 17, 20 and 21.
§ Mr. MooreThe amendments that we seek to make to clause 10 will prohibit electricity boards from showing undue preference to, or exercising undue discrimination against, any person or class of persons: this will apply to both the actual provision of the services that boards will be obliged to offer to private generators under the Bill and to the prices and charges that they offer to or seek from private generators in respect of these services.
We wish to see no unfairness of treatment as between the public and private sectors, but it is also important that any individual or class within the private sector should be treated precisely as any other individual or class whose circumstances are the same. I believe that the electricity supply industry welcomes this extension of the concept that justice should not only be done but be seen to be done. It has always been applied by the industry to the provision of supplies of electricity to other consumers and to the prices charged for those supplies.
§ Amendment agreed to.