Electricity Act 1947
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The Electricity Act 1947 was an Act of the Parliament which nationalised the electricity supply industry in Great Britain. It established a central authority - the British Electricity Authority (BEA) - to own and operate all public electricity generation and transmission facilities and created 14 area electricity boards with a duty to acquire bulk supplies of electricity from the central authority and to distribute and sell electricity economically and efficiently to industrial, commercial and domestic consumers. It vested 505 separate local authority and company owned electricity undertakings in the BEA with effect from 1 April 1948.[1]
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