Definitions

In this Act unless the context otherwise requires -

1. (a) "assessing Officer" means any officer or category of officers authorized by the State Government from time to time for the purposes of this Act;
2. (b) "electricity Utility" means any person authorized to engage in generation, transmission, distribution, supply or sale, as the case may be, of energy;
3. (c) "energy" means any electrical energy –
   • (i) generated, transmitted or supplied for any purpose, or (ii) used for any purpose except the transmission of a message;
4. (d) "unauthorized use of energy" means any abstraction, consumption or use of energy not permitted under any law relating to electricity for the time being in force and includes any abstraction, consumption or use of energy not permitted by any Electricity Utility in any manner whatsoever;
5. (e) words and expressions used but not defined in this Act and defined in the Indian Electricity Act, 1910 (Act 9 of 1910) and in the Electricity (Supply) Act, 1948 (Act 54 of 1948) shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in those Acts.