STATE ELECTRICITY CONSULTATIVE COUNCIL.

(l) The State Government shall constitute a State Electricity Consultative Council for the State, and in cases to which Sees. 6 and 7 apply, the State Governments concerned shall constitute such one or more State Electricity Consultative Council or Councils and for such areas as they may by agreement determine. (2) The State Electricity Consultative Council shall consist of the members of the Board and, if there are any Generating Company or Generating Companies operating in the State, one representative of the Generating Company or each of the Generating Companies, to be nominated by the Generating Company concerned, and such other persons being not less then eight and not more than fifteen as the State Government or the State Governments concerned may appoint after consultation with such representative or bodies representative of the following interests as the State Government or the State Governments concerned thinks or think fit, that is to say, local self-government, electricity supply industry, commerce, industry, transport, agriculture, labour employed in the electricity supply industry and consumers of electricity, but so that there shall be at least one member representing each such interest in the Council. (3) The Chairman of the Board shall be ex-officio Chairman of the State Electricity Consultative Council. (4) The State Electricity Consultative Council shall meet at least once in every three months. (5) The functions of the State, Electricity Consultative Council shall be as follows: (i) To advise the Board and the Generating Company or Generating Companies, if any, operating in the State on major questions of policy and major schemes: (ii) To review the progress and the work of the Board and the Generating Company or Generating Companies, if any, operating in the State from time to time; (iii) To consider such other matters as the Board and the Generating Company or Generating Companies, if any, operating in the State may place before it;