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Karthika 02, 1933, at 07:22:22 PM
KESC Electricity Control Order, 1978
WHEREAS under conditions of emergencies
arising on account of shortage in the supply of electrical energy due to
breakdown of two numbers of generating units on the Karachi Electric Supply
System it appears to the Chief Engineering Advisor and Chairman, Federal Flood
Commission, Government of Pakistan, to be necessary and expedient for
maintaining supplies essential to the life of the community to provide for regulating
the consumption and production of electrical energy, under such conditions ;
NOW,
THEREFORE, in exercise of the powers
conferred on him by section 2 of Electricity Control Ordinance, 1965, read with
the Government of Pakistan, Ministry of Water and Power Notification No. S.R.O.
777 (1)/78, dated the 18th June, 1978, the Chief Engineering Advisor and
Chairman, Federal Flood Commission of the Ministry of Water and Power,
Government of Pakistan, is pleased to make the following Order, namely :-
1. (1) This Order may be called the Electricity Control
Order, 1978 (KESC).
(2) It shall come into force at once and shall remain in force for so long as
an emergency in supply of electrical energy continues in KESC licensed area.
(3) It extends to the entire licensed area of Karachi Electric Supply
Corporation and also in the adjoining areas of Sind and
2. In this Order, unless there is anything
repugnant in the subject or context :-
(a) 'commercial establishment' means an establishment in which tile business of
advertising, commission or forwarding is conducted, or which is a commission
agency, and includes a joint-stock company, an insurance company, a banking
company or bank, a broker's office and a stock exchange ;
(b) 'industrial consumer' means a factory which is run, wholly or in part, by
electrical energy;
(c) 'Industrial establishment' means a workshop or other establishment in which
the work of making altering, ornamenting, finishing, packing or otherwise
treating any article or substance, with a view to its use, sale, transport,
delivery or disposal is carried on or where such service is rendered to a
consumer; ,
(d) 'peak hours' means the hours between 5.30 P.M. to 9.30 P.M. in winter (1st
October to 31st March) and between 6.30 P.M. to 10.30 P.M. in summer (1st April
to 30th September);
(e) 'shop' means any premises used wholly or in part for the wholesale or
retail sale of commodities or articles or services are rendered to customers,
and includes an office, a store-room, godown, warehouse or place of work,
whether in the same premises or otherwise, mainly connected with such trade or business;
and
(f) 'KESC' means the Karachi Electric Supply Corporation.
3. No light for decoration, advertisement or
display shall be lit during the peak hours by, in or outside any industrial or
commercial establishment, shop, cinema-house, theatre or other place of
entertainment, eating house, restaurant, hotel or market place.
4. KESC shall ensure that in the case of street
lights within the limits of its jurisdiction not more than fifty per cent of
the installed electric lights on each street are lit.
5. All the agricultural tubewells run by electrical
energy shall remain off during the peak hours.
6. Industrial consumers except for continuous
process and three shift industries shall adopt and strictly observe staggering
of weekly holidays within the KESC licensed area, in accordance with the
programme of weakly holidays to be notified by KESC from time to time.
7. Consumers of electrical energy having their own
generating plants shall run them to their maximum safe capacity on notification
by
KESC.
8. Single and double shift industries shall adjust
their working hours in such a way that these are switched off during the peak
hours.
9. Industrial consumers, except for continuous
process industries and spinning mills, shall cut their load by 20% during peak
hours.
10. All air-conditioners, except those installed
in cinemas, hotels and hospitals, shall remain switched off during the peak
hours.
11. Clauses 9 and 10 will apply only in case of
'extreme emergency' which shall be notified by
KESC.
The Electricity Control Ordinance,
1965
The Electricity Control (West
Pakistan) Order, 1966
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