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Part III · Modification and Enforcement of Licences

43. Provision of new generation plant and extension of existing plant

Official English translation. Where it differs from the Sinhala or Tamil text, the Act itself says which text prevails.

(1)

Subject to section 8, no person shall operate or provide any new generation plant or extend any existing generation plant, except as authorized by the Commission under this section.

(2)

Subject to the approval of the Commission, a transmission licensee shall, in accordance with the conditions of the transmission licence and such guidelines relating to procurement as may be prescribed by regulation and by notice published in the Gazette, call for tenders to provide new generation plant or to extend existing generation plant, as specified in the notice.

(3)

A transmission licencee shall with the consent of the

Commission, select a person to provide at least cost, the new generation plant or to extend the existing generation plant specified in the notice published under subsection (2), from amongst the persons who have submitted technically acceptable tenders in response to such notice.