(i)
"Authority" means the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority
established under section 3;
(ii)
"bulk-power consumer" means a consumer who purchases or receives
electric power, at one premises, in an amount of one megawatt or more or in
such other amount and voltage level and with such other characteristics as
the Authority may determine and the Authority may determine different
amounts and voltage levels and with such other characteristics for different
areas;
(iii)
"Chairman" means the Chairman of the Authority;
(iv)
"consumer" means a person or his successor- in-interest who
purchases or receives electric power for consumption and not for delivery or
re-sale to others, including a person who owns or occupies a premises where
electric power is supplied;
(v)
"distribution" means the ownership, operation, management or
control of distribution facilities for the movement or delivery or sale to
consumers of electric power but shall not include the ownership, operation,
management and control of distribution facilities located on private
property and used solely to move or deliver electric power to the person
owning, operating, managing and controlling those facilities or to tenants
thereof,
(vi)
"distribution company" means a person engaged in the distribution of
electric power;
(vii)
"distribution facilities" means electrical facilities operating at the
distribution voltage and used for the movement or delivery of electric
power;
(viii) "distribution voltage" means any voltage below the minimum
transmission voltage;
(ix)
"electric power" means electrical energy or the capacity for the production
of electrical power;
(x)
"electric power services" means the generation, transmission or distribution
of electric power and all other services incidental thereto;
(xi)
"generation" means the ownership, operation, management or control of
generation facilities for delivery or sale of electric power and not solely
for consumption by the person owning, operating, managing, and controlling
those facilities;
(xii)
"generation company" means a person engaged in the generation of electric
power;
(xiii) "generation facility" means the electrical facility used for
the production of electric power;
(xiv
) "inter-connection service" means the connection of one company's
electrical facilities to another company's electrical facilities;
(xv)
"KESC" means the Karachi Electric Supply Corporation, a public limited
company, incorporated under the Companies Act, 1913.
(xvi)"licence"
means a licence issued for generation, transmission or distribution under
this Act;
(xvii) "licensee" means a holder of a licence;
(xviii) "member" means a member of the Authority including the
Chairman;
(xix)
"minimum transmission voltage" means sixty-six kilovolts or such other
voltage that the Authority may determine to be the minimum voltage at which
electrical facilities are operated when used to deliver electric power in
bulk;
(xx)
"national grid company" means the person engaged in the transmission of
electric power and granted a licence under section17.
(xxi)
"persons" shall include an association of persons, concern, company, firm or
undertaking;
(xxii) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act:
(xxiii) "public sector project" means generation, transmission or
distribution facilities constructed, owned, managed or controlled by the
Federal Government, a Provincial Government, a local authority or any body
owned or controlled by any such Government or authority;
(xxiv) "regulations" means regulations made under this Act;
(xxv)
"SHYDO" means the Sarhad Hydel Development Organization, established under
the Sarhad Hydel Development Organization Act, 1993 (NWFP Act No. I of
1993);
(xxvi) "transmissions" means the ownership, operation, management
or control of transmission facilities;
(xxvii) "transmission facilities" means electrical transmission
facilities including electrical circuits, transformers and sub-stations
operating at or above the minimum transmission voltage but shall not
include-
(a)
electrical circuits forming the immediate connection between generation
facilities and the transmission grid to the extent that those circuits are
owned by a generation company and are directly associated with that
company's generation facilities; and
(b)
specified facilities operating at or above the minimum transmission
voltage which the Authority, upon an application by a licensee under
section 20 determines, shall be owned and operated by a distribution
licensee;
(xxviii) "WAPDA" means the Pakistan Water and Power Development
Authority established under the Pakistan Water and Power Development
Authority Act, 1958 (W.P.Act XXXI of 1958).
