Electricity
Control (West Pakistan ) Order, 1966
8th October, 1966
WHEREAS, a shortage has
occurred in the supply of electrical energy in the Province
of West Pakistan ;
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:---
(ii) It shall come into force at once.
(iii) It extends to the whole of the Province of West Pakistan,
except the Divisions of Karachi, Quetta , Kalat
and Khairpur.
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.
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