Section 2: In this Act unless the context otherwise requires—

"apparatus" means electrical apparatus and includes all apparatus, machines, consuming devices and fittings in which conductors are used or of which they form a part; "Authority" means the National Power Authority of Sierra Leone established under section 3; "Authority installation" means an installation which is the property of, or operated by, the Authority; "bulk supply" means a supply of electricity to be used for the purposes of distribution; "Bumbuna Hydro-Electric Power Project" means the construction of works, production and generation of electricity by means of hydro-power derived from the waters of the River Seli and the transmission, distribution and supply of electricity so produced; "Chairman" means the person appointed to be Chairman of the Authority under section 5; "conductor" means an electrical conductor arranged to be electrically connected to a system; "consumer" means a person who is supplied with energy or whose premises are for the time being connected for the purpose of a supply of energy with any installation; [Margin: Handwritten: [illegible]ded by [illegible] Decree No. 25/93] "Deputy Chairman" means the person appointed to be Deputy Chairman of the Authority under section 5; "energy" means electrical energy when generated, transmitted, supplied or used for any purpose except the transmission of any communication or signal; "financial year" means 1st April to 31st March of the following year; "General Manager" means the General Manager of the Authority; "generating station" means any station for generating electricity including any buildings and plant used for the purpose, and the site intended to be used for a generating station, but does not include any station for transforming, converting or distributing energy; "hydro-electric works" means any works for or associated with the generation of electricity by means of hydro-power; "installation" means the whole of any plant or apparatus designed for any one or more of the following purposes, namely generation, supply or use of energy and includes No. 3 National Power Authority prime movers, with all necessary plant, buildings and land used in connection therewith, pipe lines, supply lines and consumer apparatus; "licensee" means a person permitted by licence under this Act to work or operate an installation and includes an authorised agent of a licensee; "local authority" includes every City and Town Council, Urban District Council, District Council, Rural Area Council and Chiefdom Council; "maximum power" means the maximum amount of power, expressed in kilovolt-amperes or kilowatts which the consumer requires and the Authority agrees to supply in accordance with a contract with any consumer; "member of the Authority" or "member" includes the Chairman, Deputy Chairman and any member of the Authority; "Minister" means the Minister for the time being charged with responsibility for matters relating to energy and power; "occupier" includes— (a) in the case of any land in the Western Area, the owner; and (b) in relation to land in any Chiefdom, the Chiefdom Council (as defined in the Chiefdom Council's Act); [Margin: Cap. 61.] "public lamp" means an electric lamp used for the lighting of any street, wharf, dock or other public place; "standard voltage" means the voltage at which the supply is declared to be provided by the Authority at the consumer's supply terminals; "street" includes any road, lane, path, square, court, alley, passage or open space, whether a thoroughfare or not, over which the public have a right of way and also the roadway and footway over any public bridge; "stock" includes all stocks, bonds and other securities issued by the Authority for money borrowed or loan capital raised by it whether secured or unsecured and by whatever name described; "supply line" means a conductor or conductors or other means of conveying, transmitting, or distributing energy, together with any casing, coating, covering, tube, pipe, insulator or post enclosing, surrounding or supporting the same or any part thereof, and any apparatus connected therewith; 4 No. 3 National Power Authority 1982 "Vesting Day" means such day as the Minister shall, by Order to be published in the Gazette appoint for the vesting in the Authority of the undertaking known as the Sierra Leone Electricity Corporation. PART II—THE AUTHORITY [Margin: Establishment and incorporation of the Authority.]