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Electricity Act, 1987 (Act No. 41 of 1987)

7. Application for License

 

(1) An application for a license shall be made to the regulator in the manner prescribed by regulation.

 

(2) The regulator may at its discretion require an applicant to publish a notice of such application in the form approved by the regulator in a newspaper circulating in the area in which it proposes to carry on its undertaking.

 

(3) Any objection to the grant of the application shall, if a notice was published in terms of subsection (2), be lodged with the regulator within 60 days after publication thereof, and the regulator may at its discretion hear the objections in public at a time and place of which not less than 14 days notice shall be given to the applicant and to every objector.

 

(4) The regulator shall make known its decision regarding the application as soon as practicable after the hearing.

 

(5) The provisions of subsection (1), (2), (3) and (4) shall mutatis mutandis apply to an application for an amendment of a license.