Section 8 — Electricity Supply Enactment 2024

(a)

use, work or operate or permit to be used, worked or operated any installation; or

(b)

supply electricity from any installation to, or for the use of, any other person,

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unless he holds a licence.

(2)

A licence may be granted by the Commission, with the approval of the

Minister, upon payment of such fees and upon such terms and conditions as appear to be requisite or expedient.

(3)

The Commission may, whether a notice has been served or not, levy a surcharge for the late payment of fees due to from a licensee to the

Commission, at a rate of one per cent per month or part of a month on such fees or at any other rate as may be prescribed.

(4)

Notwithstanding subsection (2), the Commission may grant a licence upon payment of fees and upon such conditions as may appear to be requisite or expedient in respect of any installation as may be prescribed.

(5)

Any licence for a public installation shall set out —

(a)

the area of supply;

(b)

the declared voltage and the variations permitted therefrom;

(c)

the maximum charges payable by consumers; and

(d)

such other matters as the Commission may consider necessary.

(6)

Licences may be for such periods as the Commission may approve, provided that no licence shall, without the express approval of the Minister, be for a period exceeding twenty-one years.

(7)

Any person who contravenes —

(a)

paragraph (1)(a) commits an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or to both, and in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine not exceeding five thousand ringgit for every day or part of a day during which the offence continues after conviction;

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(b)

paragraph (1)(b) commits an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding one million ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years or to both, and in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine not exceeding ten thousand ringgit for every day or part of a day during which the offence continues after conviction.

(8)

Any licensee who fails to comply with any term or condition expressed in the licence commits an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred thousand ringgit, and in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine not exceeding one thousand ringgit for every day or part of a day during which the offence continues after conviction.

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