Sri Lanka Electricity Act 2024 · පනවන ලද පරිදි · Part VII · Licensing
20. Eligibility to apply for a licence
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Any person shall be eligible to apply for the issue of a generation licence.
The following shall be eligible to apply for the issue of a distribution licence:-
a company incorporated under the Conversion of
Public Corporations or Government owned
Business Undertakings into Public Companies
Act, No.23 of 1987 or the Companies Act, No. 07
of 2007, as the case may be;
a society registered under the Co-operative
Societies Law No. 05 of 1972.
Only a limited company incorporated under the
Companies Act, No.07 of 2007 in which the Government of
Sri Lanka holds -
one hundred per centum of its shares shall be eligible to apply for the issue of the national system operator licence;
more than fifty per centum of its shares shall be eligible to apply for the issue of the national transmission network service provider licence.
All functions of the Ceylon Electricity Board, relating to –
the generation scheduling, commitment and economic dispatch of generating plants, planning for meeting future electricity demands, operation and maintenance of the System Control Centre, procurement of electricity in bulk form from the generation licensees and sale of such procured electricity in bulk form to the distribution licensees shall be vested, with effect from the appointed date in the National System Operator; and
the maintenance of the physical infrastructure that comprises the National Grid of Sri Lanka and for the transmission of electricity in bulk form to the distribution licensees shall be vested, with effect from the appointed date in the National
Transmission Network Service Provider subject to the provisions of subsection (2) of section 14.
Additional transmission licences may be granted to any person, which acquires subject to the limitation specified in paragraph (b) of subsection (4), the right to build a transmission asset pursuant to paragraph (c) of subsection (11) of section 10 and subsection (2) of section 14.
A person who holds more than fifteen per centum of shares of a single company, directly or indirectly, shall not be granted a combination of any two of the following licences: –
the national transmission network service provider licence and a generation licence;
the national transmission network service provider licence and a distribution licence;
the national transmission network service provider licence and national system operator licence;
the national system operator licence and a distribution licence;
the national system operator licence and a generation licence;
a generation licence and a distribution licence; or
more than one distribution licence.
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