Annual reports, statistics and returns

Annual reports, statistics and returns.-(1) The Board shall, before such date and in such form as may be prescribed, submit to the Government an annual report upon such matters as may be prescribed, and the Government shall cause such report to be published in the Government Gazette.

1. (2) Without prejudice to the provisions of sub-section (5), the Board shall, as soon as may be after the end of each financial year, prepare and submit to the Government in such form as may be prescribed a report giving an account of its activities during the previous financial year and the report shall also give an account of activities, if any, which are likely to be undertaken by the Board in the next financial year; and the Government shall cause every such report to be laid before both the Houses of the Legislature as soon as may be after it is received by the Government.
2. (3) The Board shall furnish to the Government at such times and in such form and manner as may be prescribed or as the Government may direct, such statistics and returns and such particulars in regard to any proposed or existing scheme as the Government may from time to time require.
3. (4) The Board may, at any time by notice in writing, require any licensee or person supplying electricity for public or private purposes or generating electricity for his own use to furnish it with such information and accounts relating to such supply or generation and in such form and manner as the notice may specify.