General conditions of licences

(1) A licence may include– (a) such conditions (whether or not relating to the activities authorized by the licence) as appear to the Commission to be requisite or expedient having regard to the duties imposed by section 6; and (b) conditions requiring the rendering to the relevant authority of a payment on the grant of the licence, or payments during the currency of the licence, or both, of such amount or amounts as may be determined by or under the licence and in accordance with section 8 above. (2) Without prejudice to the generality of sub-section (1)(a), conditions included in a licence by virtue of that paragraph– (a) may require the licence holder to enter into agreements with other persons for the use of any electric lines and electrical plant of his (wherever situated and whether or not used for the purpose of carrying on the activities authorized by the licence) for such purposes as may be specified in the conditions; 23 (b) and may include provision for determining the terms on which such agreements are to be entered into. (3) Conditions included in a licence by virtue of sub-section (1)(a) may require the licence holder– (a) to comply with any direction given by the Commission as to such matters as are specified in the licence or are of a description so specified; (b) except in so far as the Commission consents to his doing or not doing them, not to do or to do such things as are specified in the licence or are of a description so specified; (c) to refer for determination by the Commission such questions arising under the licence as are specified in the licence or are of a description so specified; and (d) to refer for approval by the Commission such things falling to be done under the licence, and such contracts or agreements made before the grant of the licence, as are specified in the licence or are of a description so specified. (4) Conditions included in a licence by virtue of sub-section (1)(a) may– (a) instead of specifying or describing any contracts or agreements to which they apply, refer to contracts or agreements designated (whether before or after the imposition of the conditions) by the Commission; and (b) instead of containing any provisions which fall to be made, refer to provisions set out in 24 documents so designated and direct that those provisions shall have such effect as may be specified in the conditions. (5) Conditions included in a licence may contain provision for the conditions to cease to have effect or be modified at such times, in such manner and in such circumstances as may be specified in or determined by or under the conditions. (6) Any provision included by virtue of sub-section (5) in a licence shall have effect in addition to the provision made by this Part with respect to the modification of the conditions of a (7) Any sums received by the Government in consequence of the provisions of any condition of a licence shall be paid into the Consolidated Revenue Fund.