Section 2

"area of supply" means that area within which the Board is, or a licensee is authorized, to generate and/ or to supply energy;

"Board" means the Lembaga Letrik Sabah constituted under section 3;

"Chairman" means Chairman of the Board;

"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;

"danger" means danger to health or to human life or limb from shock, burn, or other injury and includes danger to property, installation or equipment resulting from the generation, transmission, distribution or utilisation of energy;

"Deputy Chairman" means Deputy Chairman of the Board;

"distributing main" means the portion of any main which is used for the purpose of giving origin to service lines for the purposes of general supply;

"electrical supply line" means any wire, conductor or other means used for conveying electricity for power, lighting or heating purposes and includes any instrument, insulator, casing, tubing or post supporting any electric supply line or anything connected therewith;

"energy" means either natural gas or synthetic gas, liquefied petroleum gases, electricity, or other energy forms including solar, geothermal, biomass and wind, tidal and water power when produced, generated, transmitted, supplied or used for purpose except the transmission of any communication or signal; electricity unless otherwise defined is an article as provided for under section 3 of the Factories and Machinery Act 1967;

"equipment" includes any item for such purposes as generation, conversion, transmission, distribution or utilisation of electrical energy, such as machines, transformers, apparatus, measuring instruments, protective devices, wiring materials, accessories and appliances;

"functions" includes powers and duties;

"gas" means a combustible gaseous fuel including natural gas and gaseous fuels derived from any raw materials;

"General Manager" means the General Manager appointed under section 21 and includes any person for the time being so appointed to perform the duties of the General Manager;

"general supply" means the general supply of energy specially agreed with any public or local authority for the general supply of energy to public lamps, but shall not include the supply of energy to any one or more particular consumers under special agreement;

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"generating station" means any station for generating electrical energy, including any buildings and plant used for the purpose and the site thereof, and includes a site intended to be used for a generating station, but does not include any station for transforming, covering, or distributing electrical energy;

"installation" means the whole of any plant or equipment under one ownership or in charge of the same management, designed for the supply or use, or both, as the case may be, of energy, including prime movers, if any, with all necessary plant, buildings and land in connection therewith, pipe lines, supply lines and consuming equipment, if any;

"licence" means a licence issued under any written law, permitting the licensee to operate or work an electrical installation and includes any licence issued under any other law enforced before the promulgation of this Act;

"licensee" means a person permitted by licence to work or operate an electrical installation and includes an authorised agent;

"liquefied petroleum gases" means a mixture of hydrocarbons, principally propane and butane, which is produced, stored, distributed or sold in liquid form in pressurised containers for any use;

"main" means any electrical line which may be laid underground or erected overhead by the Board or licensee and through which energy may be supplied by the Board or licensee for the purposes of general supply;

"member" means a member of the Board including the Chairman and Deputy Chairman;

"meter" means and includes any and every kind of machine, device or instrument used for the measurement of the supply of energy;

"Minister" means the Minister for the time being charged with responsibility for matters relating to energy;

"natural gas" means a gaseous product comprised principally of methane which is produced from naturally occurring underground reservoirs and which is used for its fuel value or as a feedstock;

"pipeline" means a mechanical conduit used for the conveyance of fluids and shall include related facilities such as metering and pressure control equipment;

"power" means electrical power or the rate per unit of time at which energy is supplied;

"public authority" means the Government or any department or branch of the Government or the Board;

"premises" means and includes any building, room, tenement, hut, or shed or other erection and all the land occupied or used or authorised for occupation or use in connection therewith, being under one ownership, lessee-ship, management or occupation;

"prime mover" means a machine supplying mechanical energy to a generator;

"public lamp" means an electric lamp used for the lighting of any street or other public place;

"street" includes any thoroughfare over which the public have a right of way;

"State" means the State of Sabah;

"sub-station" means the works or station where energy is received for transformation or conversion and includes all buildings and plant used for the purpose and the site thereof;

"supply line" means a conductor 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 or any building or equipment connected therewith for the purpose of transforming, conveying, transmitting or distributing energy;

"transformation" means the transformation of voltage from a lower to a higher voltage or vice versa;

"voltage" means extra high voltage, high voltage, low voltage and extra low voltage as prescribed;

"works" includes electric supply lines, canals, riverworks, dams, headwork, pipelines, buildings, machinery matters or things of whatever description required to supply energy and to carry into effect the objects of the Board.