Unit: Electricity Commissioners

Electricity Commissioners

Tuesday 23rd of December 1919 - Thursday 19th of June 1924

The Electricity Commissioners was established ‘to promote, regulate and supervise the supply of electricity’ under the direction of the Board of Trade. It provided for the formation of electricity districts and, where necessary, the establishment of joint electricity authorities, ‘to provide or secure the provision of a cheap and abundant supply of electricity’

From date: 1919-12-23
To date: 1924-06-19
Source: Electricity (Supply) Act 1919 (9 & 10 Geo. 5. c. 100); Electricity Commissioners (Transfer of Functions) Order 1924 (No. 7 of 1924)
Confidence: Quite Confident
Legal forms: Statutory non-departmental body
- Source: Electricity (Supply) Act 1919 (9 & 10 Geo. 5. c. 100)
- From date: 1919-12-23
- To date: 1924-06-19
- Confidence: Quite Confident
Functions: Delivery
- Source: Electricity (Supply) Act 1919 (9 & 10 Geo. 5. c. 100)
- From date: 1919-12-23
- To date: 1924-06-19
- Confidence: Quite Confident
Functions: Regulatory (over public and private sectors)
- Source: Electricity (Supply) Act 1919 (9 & 10 Geo. 5. c. 100)
- From date: 1919-12-23
- To date: 1924-06-19
- Confidence: Quite Confident
Policy domains: General Public Services
- Source: Electricity (Supply) Act 1919 (9 & 10 Geo. 5. c. 100)
- From date: 1919-12-23
- To date: 1924-06-19
- Confidence: Quite Confident
Parents: Ministry of Economic Affairs
- Description: Assumed to have fallen under the remit of the Department of Economic Affairs prior to the merger of that Department with Industry and Commerce
- From date: 1922-04-01
- To date: 1922-09-09
- Confidence: Somewhat Confident
Parents: Ministry of Industry and Commerce
- Source: Sixth Part to the Schedule of the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924 (No. 16 of 1924)
- From date: 1922-09-09
- To date: 1924-06-02
- Confidence: Quite Confident
Parents: Department of Industry and Commerce (I)
- Source: Sixth Part to the Schedule of the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924 (No. 16 of 1924); Electricity (Transfer of Functions) Order 1924 (No. 7 of 1924)
- Description: Functions transferred to the Minister for Industry and Commerce from 19 June 1924
- From date: 1924-06-02
- To date: 1924-06-19
- Confidence: Quite Confident
Cofog: general services
- Source: Electricity (Supply) Act 1919 (9 & 10 Geo. 5. c. 100)
- From date: 1919-12-23
- To date: 1924-06-19
- Confidence: Quite Confident
URL: http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1924/si/7/

Associated Events
Name	Date	From	To
S.I. No. 7/1924 (Electricity Commissioners)	1924-06-19	Electricity Commissioners	Department of Industry and Commerce (I)
Electricity (Supply) Act 1919 (9 & 10 Geo. 5. c. 100)	1919-12-23		Electricity Commissioners

Unit Information

Electricity Commissioners