Power of Board to conduct investigations

Power of Board to conduct investigations.-Subject to so far as the provisions of this section relate to water-power, to the previous approval of the Government, the Board may, at its own expense, conduct such investigations, experiments and trials as it thinks fit for the improvement of the methods of transmission, distribution and supply of electricity or of the utilisation of fuel, water-power or other means of generating electricity, and may establish and maintain laboratories for the testing and standardization of electrical instruments and equipment.