Energy Supply (Temporary Provisions) Act 2002 · As enacted · Part II · Exercise of Power Under Other Laws
Section 26
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Committee to exercise rights and powers exercised by the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation, the Minister or the Board of Directors as the case may be under sections Sp to Si, 34a and 42 of the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation Act
petroleum
“petroleum” means petroleum and includes any product, or by-product which may be derived, purchased, prepared, developed, compounded, made, or manufactured, from hydro-carbons or hydro-carbon compounds, and any inorganic and natural or synthetic organic compound or mixture which has been used or is being used or is intended to be used as agricultural chemicals of whatever description for the purpose of destroying, inhibiting or controlling the action of plant or animal pest and fungus growth and to increase the productivity and quality of plant life;
From and after the appointed date, the Committee may where it considers it necessary and expedient so to do in the due discharge of its functions—
exercise one or more of the rights vested in the
Petroleum Corporation established by the Ceylon
Petroleum Corporation Act, under sections 5, Sc,
5p, and 34a ; or
exercise any one or more of the powers or special powers conferred on the Minister or the Board of
Minister
“Minister” means the Minister in charge of the subject of Power and Energy.
Directors as the case may be, under sections 5p, SE,
5F, 5G, 5H, 51 and 42 of the aforesaid Act, and where the Committce exercises such rights or powers, the Corporation, the Minister or the Board of Directors as the case may be, shall not exercise any power under those sections so long as this Act is in operation and any reference to the “Corporation”, “Board of Director's” of the “Minister”, as the case may be in such sections shall unless the context otherwise requires, be read atid construed as a referéhce to the “Committee”.