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The Electricity Act 1947 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that nationalised 505 separate electricity generation and supply organizations in Great Britain, both privately owned and state owned, and consolidated them into 14 area electricity boards of the new Central Electricity Authority that the Act created〔Katzarov. _Theory of Nationalization_ (Springer Science & Business Media, Dec 6, 2012). https://books.google.ae/books?id=M9HoCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA213&lpg=PA213&dq=Electricity+Act+1947&source=bl&ots=dKN5DoV9kE&sig=dMR4dYCJxfygLJ_eunt2NNu4Uy4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CE8Q6AEwCWoVChMIqMvb7cCPxgIVylUUCh1zYABF#v=onepage&q=Electricity%20Act%201947&f=false〕 (also known as the British Electricity Authority), which subsequently became the Central Electricity Generating Board. The duty of the area boards was to acquire bulk supplies of electricity from the Central Authority and to distribute electricity economically and efficiently.〔Katzarov. _Theory of Nationalization_ (Springer Science & Business Media, Dec 6, 2012). https://books.google.ae/books?id=M9HoCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA213&lpg=PA213&dq=Electricity+Act+1947&source=bl&ots=dKN5DoV9kE&sig=dMR4dYCJxfygLJ_eunt2NNu4Uy4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CE8Q6AEwCWoVChMIqMvb7cCPxgIVylUUCh1zYABF#v=onepage&q=Electricity%20Act%201947&f=false〕 The Act also transferred the generating assets and liabilities of a number of companies in England and Wales into a single state-controlled body.〔RWE Corporate History. http://www.rwe.com/web/cms/en/286400/rwe-npower/about-us/our-history/history-of-electricity-industry/〕 == See also == * List of pre-nationalisation UK electric power companies * Electricity (Supply) Act 1919 * Electricity Act 1957 * Electricity Act 1989 * British Electricity Authority * Utilities Act 2000 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Electricity Act 1947」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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