Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2022 (EV)

No: 187 Dated: Aug, 08 2022

Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2022 (EV)

A Bill further to amend the Electricity Act, 2003.

BE it enacted by Parliament in the Seventy-third Year of the Republic of India as follows:-

1. (1) This Act may be called the Electricity (Amendment) Act, 2022.

(2) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint:

Provided that different dates may be appointed for different provisions of this Act and any reference in any such provision to the commencement of this Act shall be construed as a reference to the coming into force of that provision.

2. Throughout the Electricity Act, 2003 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), for the words and figures “the Companies Act, 1956”, wherever they occur, the words and figures “the Companies Act, 2013” shall be substituted.