(1) The State Government may, at any time as it considers to be appropriate, propose any subsidy to any class or classes of consumers in the tariff determined by the Commission and upon receiving such proposal, the Commission shall determine the amount to be paid as subsidy and the terms and conditions of such payment including the manner of payment of subsidy amounts by the State Government to the person affected by the decision of the subsidy.
(2) While determining the tariff, the Commission shall take into account any subsidies, which the State Government had agreed to give to any class or classes of consumers.
(3) The tariff determined by the Commission shall be published duly taking into account such subsidy offered by the State Government as on the date of the decision of the Commission.
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(4) Notwithstanding anything contained in these regulations, no direction of the State Government shall be operative if the payment is not made by the State Government in accordance with the provisions of section 65 of the act. In the event of such directions being not operative the amount of subsidy to be made by the State Government shall be added in the tariff to be charged by the licensee to the concerned class or classes of consumers.
(5) The consequential orders which the Commission may issue to give effect to the subsidy that the Sate Government may provide shall not be construed as amendment of tariff notified. The licensee shall, however, give appropriate adjustments in the bills to be raised on the consumers for the subsidy amount in the manner the Commission may direct.
(6) The bills to the consumers shall distinctively display the per unit cost of supply of electricity to the class of consumer as determined by the Commission, the subsidy, if any, given by the State Government applicable to such class of consumers and per unit amount of such subsidy, the bill amount payable by the consumer and the cross subsidization of the class of the consumer in the tariff made applicable without taking into account of subsidy from the Sate Government.
(7) The licensee shall be required to furnish documents to the satisfaction of the Commission that the subsidy amount received by the licensee from the State Government is duly accounted for and utilized for the purpose for which the subsidy is given.
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