(1) The Commission may by notification in the official Gazette, make regulations consistent with this Act and the rules made thereunder to carry out the purposes of this Act.
(2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such regulations may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely:-
(a) the administration of the affairs of the Commission including the discharging of its functions, the exercise of its administrative, quasi-judicial and judicial powers including arbitration and procedure, summoning and holding of the meetings of the Commission, the times at which such meetings shall be held, the conduct of business thereof and the manner in which copies of decision , directions and orders of the Commission shall be made available;
(b) the duties of the Secretary, officers and employees of the Commission, method and manner of their selection for appointment, their salaries, allowances and conditions of service;
(c) determination of the functions to be assigned to licensees and others involved in the generation, purchase, transmission, distribution and supply, the manner in which such functions shall be discharged, furnishing of periodical information by them to the 39 Commission related to generation, transmission, distribution and supply or use of electricity or information related to organisation, business, cost of productions, etc as may be prescribed, conferring upon licensees and other persons any of the powers which the telegraph authority possesses under the Indian Telegraph Act,1885 with respect to placing of telegraph lines and post and the procedure and code to be adopted with regard to power system and electric supply lines;
(d) the procedure for licensing of transmission and supply, the conditions for the grant of licences and particulars, details and documents to be made available by the persons applying for licence, the standard and general conditions subject to which, the licence shall be granted prescribing the form of application for grant of licence and fee payable for such licence, the exemption from grant of licence, revocation and alteration and amendment and effect thereof, of the licence, and all matters related to the above;
(e) the duties, powers, rights and obligations of the licensee;
(f) the particulars to be furnished, the collection of information, details, particulars, documents, accounts, books etc., from or of the persons involved in the generation, transmission, distribution, supply and use of electricity, the form and manner in which the same are to be furnished and enforcing and compelling the production of the same;
(g) method and manner of determination of licensee’s revenues, tariff fixation, the matters to be considered in such determination and fixation;
(h) the constitution of the Commission Advisory Committee;
(i) to govern the terms and conditions for the operation and maintenance of power system and electric supply lines;
(j) the determination of the standard of performance of the persons involved in the generation, transmission, distribution and supply of electricity in the National Capital Territory of Delhi;
(k) the amount of fines and penalties to be imposed for violation of provisions of this Act including the method and manner of imposition of fines and penalties and collection of the same;
(l) to prescribe the form and manner in which the accounts of the Commission shall be maintained;
(m) to regulate the properties, assets and interest in the properties used for or in connection with the electricity industry in the National Capital Territory of Delhi; and
(n) any other matter which is to be, or may be, prescribed or in respect of which provision is to be made by regulations.
62. Every rule made by the Government and every regulation made by the Commission under this Act shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before the House of the Legislative Assembly of the National Capital Territory of Delhi,while it is in session, for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, the House agrees in making any modification in the rule or regulation or the House agrees that the rule or regulation should not be made, the rule or regulation shall thereafter 40 have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule or regulation.
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PART – XIV EFFECT ON EXISTING CENTRAL LEGISLATION