PART - IX

ADVISORY COMMITTEE, CONSUMER CONSULTATION, ETC.
   

The Commission shall constitute a committee to be known as the Commission Advisory Committee, in consultation with the Government which shall consist of such number of persons being not less than nine and not more than fifteen as the Commission may appoint after consultation with such representatives or bodies representative of the following interests as the Commission thinks fit, that is to say, holders of supply licences in the National Capital Territory of Delhi, commerce, industry, transport, agriculture, labour employed in the electricity supply industry and consumers of electricity.

The Chairman and member of the Commission shall be ex-officio Chairman and member of the Commission Advisory Committee.

The Commission Advisory Committee shall meet at least once in every three months.

The functions of the Commission Advisory Committee shall be :-

1. to advise the Commission on major question of policy related to the electricity industry in the National Capital Territory of Delhi ; and

2. to advise the Commission on any matters which the Commission may put before it, including matters relating to the quality, continuity and extent of service provided by licensees and compliance by licensees with the conditions and requirements of their licences.

1. holder of supply licences ;

2. other persons or bodies appearing to the Commission to be representatives of persons and categories of persons likely to be affected ; and

3. the Commission Advisory Committee, frame regulations prescribing -

The Commission may after consultation with the licensees, the Commission Advisory Committee, and with persons or bodies appearing to it to be representative of persons likely to be affected, from time to time -

1. determine such standards of overall performance in connection with the provision of electricity supply services and in connection with the promotion of the efficient use of electricity by consumers as, in its opinion, is economic and ought to be achieved by such licensees; and

2. arrange for the publication, in such form and in such manner as it considers appropriate, of the standards so determined.

Different standards may be determined under this section for different licensees.

Information with respect to levels of performance.

The Commission shall, from time to time, collect information with respect to -

1. the fines or penalties levied on licensees under this Ordinance.

2. the levels of overall performance achieved by such licensees in connection with the transmission and provision of electricity supply services; and

3. the levels of performance achieved by such licensees in connection with the promotion of the efficient use of electricity by consumers.

On or before such date in each year as may be specified in a direction given by the Commission, each licensee shall furnish to the Commission the following information:-

1. with respect to each standard prescribed the number of cases in which a penalty was levied and the aggregate amount or value of those penalties; and

2. with respect to each standard determined such information with respect to the level of performance achieved by the licensee as may be so specified.

The Commission shall, at least once in every year, arrange for the publication, in such form and in such manner as it considers appropriate, of such of the information collected by or furnished to it under this section as may appear to the Commission to be so required.

Restriction on disclosure of information.

Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, no confidential information with respect to any particular business which-

1. has been obtained by the Commission under or by virtue of any of the provisions of this Ordinance; and

2. relates to the affairs of any individual or to any particular business:

shall during the lifetime of that individual or for so long as that particular business continues to be carried on, be disclosed by the Commission without the consent of that individual or the person for the time being carrying on that business.

The restriction contained in sub-section(1) above shall not apply to any disclosure of information which is made -

1. for the purpose of facilitating the carrying out by the Government of any of its functions under a statute;

2. for the purpose of facilitating the carrying out by the Central Government of any of its duties or functions under this Ordinance or any Central legislation;

3. for the purpose of facilitating the carrying out by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India of his duties and functions under this Ordinance;

4. for the purpose of enabling or assisting any competent person to carry out his functions under the enactment relating to insolvency;

5. in connection with the investigation of any criminal offence or for the purposes of any criminal proceedings; or

6. for the purposes of any civil proceedings brought under or by virtue of this Ordinance or any other law for the time being in force in the National Capital Territory of Delhi to which the information is directly relevant.

The restrictions contained in sub-section(1) above do not apply to the disclosure of any information which is otherwise in the public domain.