Singapore legislation
Section 49
Section 49
Exceptions from duty to supply
(1)
Nothing in section 48 shall be taken as requiring a public electricity supplier to procure a supply of electricity to any premises if —
it is prevented from doing so by circumstances not within its control;
circumstances exist by reason of which its doing so would or might involve the supplier or any other public licensee being in breach of the regulations, and the supplier or other licensee has taken all such steps as it was reasonable to take both to prevent the circumstances from occurring and to prevent them from having that effect;
any building on the premises has been erected in contravention of any written law or is in a ruinous or dangerous condition; or
it is not reasonable in all the circumstances for it to be required to do so.
(2)
Nothing in section 48 shall be taken as requiring a public electricity supplier to procure a supply of electricity to any premises if the supply is being given to the premises by a private electricity supplier through (wholly or partly) a public licensee’s electric line and electrical plant.
(3)
Where such premises shall cease for any reason to be supplied in the manner specified in subsection (2), the public electricity supplier shall be obliged to procure a supply of electricity to such premises under section 48 if so requested by any person requiring such a supply to such premises.
(4)
In this section, “private electricity supplier” means a person, other than a public electricity supplier, who is authorised by a public licence to supply electricity.