Overhead Line - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Overhead line, means an electric line which is placed above the ground and in the open air but does not include live rails of a traction system. [Electricity Act, 2003 (36 of 2003), s. 2(48)]...
Transmission lines
Transmission lines, means all high pressure cables and overhead lines (not being an essential part of the distribution system of a licensee) transmitting electricity from a generating station to another generation station or a sub-station, together with any step-up and step-down transformers, switch-gear and other works necessary to and used for the control of such cables or overhead lines, and such buildings or part thereof as may be required to accommodate such transforments, switch-gear and other works. [Electricity Act, 2003, s. 2(72)]...
Electric supply-line
Electric supply-line, means a wire, conductor or other means used for conveying, transmitting or distributing energy (whether by overhead line or underground cable), together with any casing, coating, covering, tube, pipe or insulator enclosing, surrounding or supporting the same or any part thereof, or any apparatus connected therewith for the purpose of so conveying, transmitting or distributing such energy and includes any support cross-arm, stay, strut or safety device erected to set up for that purpose. [Indian Electricity Act, 1910, s. 2 (f); See also (60 of 2002), s. 2(1)(d)]Electric Supply-line, shall have the meaning assign-ed to it under clause (f) of s. 2 of the Indian Electri- city Act, 1910 (9 of 1910), Delhi Metro Railway (Operation and Maintenance) Act, 2002, s. 2(d)....
Wires, Overhead
Wires, Overhead. For power to urban authority to make bye-laws for prevention of danger or obstruction from overhead telegraphic wires: see the Public Health and Local Government Acts. As to the power of the Post Office to place telegraph lines across private property or property belonging to public undertakings, etc., see the (English) Telegraph Acts (41 & 42 Vict. c. 76; 26 & 27 Vict. c. 112; and 6 & 7 Geo. 5, c. 40), and special or local Acts....
Power system
Power system, means all aspects of generation, transmission, distribution and supply of electricity and includes one or more of the following, namely:-(a) generating stations;(b) transmissions or main transmission lines;(c) sub-stations;(d) tie-lines;(e) load despatch activities;(f) mains or distribution mains;(g) electric supply-lines;(h) overhead lines;(i) service lines;(j) works. [Electricity Act, 2003 (36 of 2003), s. 2(50)]...
overhead
overhead : business expenses (as rent or insurance) not chargeable to a particular part of the work or product ...
Load-line
Load-line, a line painted on the sides of a ship to show how far up the sides the water will rise when the ship is loaded. The (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1890 (53 & 54 Vict. c. 9), substituted a 'maximum load-line in salt water, to which it should be lawful to load a ship,' i.e., a compulsory load-line, for a load-line indicating a point beyond which the owner intended that it should not be loaded, as prescribed by the (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1876, i.e., an optional load-line; and this provision of the Act of 1890 was re-enacted by s. 437 of the (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, and see also s. 8 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1906. Both these sections have now been repealed by the (English) Merchant Shipping (Safety and Load Line Conventions) Act, 1932 (22 Geo. 5, c. 9), and ss. 43 to 46 now prescribed the law.Under the (English) M.S. Act, 1894, s. 442, sub-mergence beyond the load-line by reason of weather was held to be an offence, Radcliffe v. Brickwell, (1927) 2...
Electric line
Electric line, 'electric line' means any line which is used for carrying electricity for any purpose and includes:-(a) any support for any such line, that is to say, any structure, tower, pole or other thing in, on, by or from which any such line is, or may be, supported, carried or suspended; and(b) any apparatus connected to any such line for the purpose of carrying electricity. [Electricity Act, 2003 (36 of 2003), s. 2(20)]...
Dedicated transmission lines
Dedicated transmission lines, 'dedicated trans-mission lines' means any electric supply-line for point to point transmission which are required for the purpose of connecting electric lines or electric plants of a captive generating plant referred to in, s. 9 or generating station referred to in, s. 10 to any transmission lines or sub-stations or generating stations or the load center, as the case may be. [Electricity Act, (36 of 2003), s. 2(16)]...
Line
Line, succession of relations (see INHERITANCE); boundary; the twelfth part of an inch.The word 'line' in the expression 'telegraph line' connotes the existence of a defined channel of communication which has got a physical existence, Senior Electric Inspector v. Laxminarayan Chopra, AIR 1962 SC 159 (161): (1962) 3 SCR 146.Means any wire, cable, tube, pipe, insulator, conductor or other similar thing (including its casing or coating) which is designed or adapted for use in carrying electricity and includes any line which surrounds or supports, or is surrounded or supported by or is installed in close proximity to, or is supported, carried or suspended in association with, any such line. [Electricity Act, 2003 (36 of 2003), s. 2(40)]...
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