56. Purposes for which Regulations are made

allowing and securing appropriate electricity trading arrangements between licensees;

securing that supplies of electricity are regular and efficient;

protecting the public from dangers arising from the generation, transmission, distribution, supply or use of any electric line or electrical plant; and

without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (c), eliminating or reducing the risk of personal injury or damage to property or interference with its use, arising any of the activities referred to in that paragraph.

prohibit the supply, transmission or distribution of electricity, except by means of a system approved by the Commission;

make provision requiring notice to be given to the Commission in such cases as may be specified in the regulations, of accidents and of failures in the supply, transmission or distribution of electricity;

make provision as to the keeping by persons authorized by a licence or exempted from the requirement to obtain a licence, to supply, transmit or distribute electricity, of maps and plans and as to their production for inspection or copying;

make provision for relieving persons authorized by a licence to supply electricity, from an obligation to supply in certain instances;

make provision requiring compliance with notices given by the Commission specifying action to be taken in relation to any electric line or electrical plant or any electrical appliance under the control of a consumer, for the purpose of–

preventing a breach of any regulation;

eliminating or reducing a risk of personal injury or damage to property or interference with its use;

provide for particular requirements of the regulations to be deemed to have been complied with in the case of any electric line or electrical plant complying with specified standards or requirements;

provide for the granting of exemptions from any requirement of the regulations for such periods as may be determined by or under the regulations.