Section 10: Duties of Board
consolidated text (as at 2016, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
10. Duties of Board
(1) The functions and duties of the Board shall be—
(a) to prepare and carry out development schemes with the general
object of promoting, coordinating and improving the generation,
transmission, distribution and sale of electricity for all purposes
throughout Mauritius as required;
(b) to provide for new generating stations;
(c) to discharge or perform any other functions and duties
committed to or imposed on it by this Act or under any other
enactment;
(d) to collect such fees on behalf of the Mauritius Broadcasting
Corporation or such other body as the Minister may approve.
(2) The Board may, with the approval of the Minister, set up such
companies under the Companies Act for—
(a) the implementation of projects relating to the production of
electricity from renewable energy sources;
(b) the use of its network for the development of projects of
national interest; or
(c) the implementation of such other projects as the Board may
determine.
(3) A company set up under subsection (2) shall be an exempt
organisation within the meaning of the Public Procurement Act.
[S. 10 amended by Act 56 of 1984; Act 26 of 1992; s. 29 (3) of Act 13 of 2013
w.e.f. 5 February 2014; s. 6 (a) of Act 18 of 2016 w.e.f. 7 September 2016.]