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Rh installation licence may authorise the licensee to lay, place or carry on, under or over any State land to the extent and in the manner specified in the licence, such supply lines, and to erect and maintain in or on the State land such posts and other apparatuses as may, in the opinion of the Authority, be necessary or proper for the purposes of the electrical or supply installation.

(2) Any authorisation under subsection (1) may be given or added to at any time during the currency of the licence by endorsement thereon.

(3) All apparatuses placed in or upon any State land which is not removed therefrom within 6 months, or such longer period as the Commissioner of Lands may permit, after the expiration or earlier determination of the licence under the authority of which the apparatus was so placed, shall vest in and become the property of the Government.

Existing electrical or supply installation

70. All electrical and supply installations which have been operated or the construction of which has been completed or has begun on or before the appointed day shall be subject to this Act.

Exemption of certain electrical or supply installation

71. The Authority may, by notification in the Gazette, exempt from all or any of the provisions of this Part—
 * (a) any electrical or supply installation owned and operated by an electricity licensee, the Government or any statutory authority;
 * (b) any electrical or supply installation used exclusively for domestic purposes; and
 * (c) such other electrical or supply installations as the Authority may consider desirable.

Control by electrical worker

72.—(1) A person granted an electrical or supply installation licence shall employ or appoint such class or classes of electrical workers as the Authority may direct to operate or to be in charge of or to control any electrical or supply installation and no other person shall operate or be in charge of or control the electrical or supply installation.