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Thoul Ki'dah 27, 1432/Somavara
Karthika 02, 1933, at 07:25:54 PM
Electricity
Control (
8th October, 1966
WHEREAS, a
shortage has occurred in the supply of electrical energy in the
AND WHEREAS, for
meeting the aforesaid emergency resulting from shortage of power, and
maintaining supply and service essential to the life of the community, it
appears to the Government of West Pakistan to be necessary and expedient that
certain restrictions be placed on the consumption of electrical energy in the
Province of West Pakistan:---
NOW, THEREFORE, in
exercise of the powers conferred on the Provincial Government under section 2
of the Electricity Control Ordinance, 1965 (XVIII of 1965), read with the
Ministry of Industries and Natural Resources Notification No. P-16 (38)/65,
dated the 19th September, 1963, the Government of Pakistan is pleased to makes
the following Order, namely:---
1. (i) This Order may be called the Electricity Control (
(ii) It shall come into force at once.
(iii) It extends to the whole of the
2. In this Order, the following
expressions shall have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that
is to say:---
(a) 'commercial establishment' means an establishment
which is not a shop but which does the business of advertising, commission,
forwarding or commercial agency, or which is an electrical department of a
factory or other industrial concern, or which is an insurance company, a
joint-stock company or broker' office and shall include such other class of
establishment as the Provincial Government may, by notification in the official
Gazette, declare to be a commercial establishment for the purposes of this
Order; and
(b) 'eating house' means any premises in which is carried
on wholly or principally the business or the supply of meals or refreshment to
the public or class of the public and includes a restaurant.
3. (i) No electric lights for
decoration, advertisement or display shall be lit between the hours of 5.30
p.m. and 9.30 p.m. outside industrial and commercial concerns, shops,
cinema-houses, theatres and other places of entertainment, eating-houses,
commercial establishments or market places except with the previous permission
in writing of the District Magistrate concerned.
(ii) Nothing in this clause shall apply to illuminated
trade signs of chemists.
The Electricity Control Ordinance,
1965
The KESC Electricity Control Order,
1978
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