PPC § 462G — Definitions

Statutory text (English)

In this Chapter, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or
context,—
(a) "Court" means the court of sessions designated as Electricity Utilities Court
empowered to take cognizance of an offence under this Chapter;
(b) "consumer" means a person or his successor in interest who purchases or
receives electric power for consumption and not for delivery or resale to other,
including a person who owns or occupies a premises where electric power is
supplied;
(c) "distribution" means the ownership, operation, management or control of
distribution facilities for the movement or delivery or sale to consumers of
electric power but shall not include the ownership, operation, management and
control of distribution facilities located on private property and used solely to
move or deliver electric power to the person owning, operating, managing and
controlling those facilities or to tenants thereof;
(d) "distribution facilities" means electrical facilities operating at the distribution
voltage and used for the movement or delivery of electric power;
(e) "electric meter" means an instrument which measures electricity delivered to
the consumer for consumption including kilowatt meter, kilowatt hour meter;
kilowatt ampere hour meter, kilowatt ampere reactive hour meter, current
transformers, potential transformers, maximum demand indicator or any other
measuring apparatus;
(f) "electric supply-line" means a wire, conductor or other means used for
conveying, transmitting, or distributing energy together with any casing,
coating, covering, tube, pipe or insulator, enclosing, surrounding or supporting
the same or any part thereof, or any apparatus connected therewith for the
purpose of so conveying, transmitting or distributing such energy;
(g) "electric power" means electrical energy or the capacity for the production of
electrical power;
(h) "electric power services" means the generation, transmission or distribution of
electric power and all other services incidental thereto;
(i) "energy" means electrical energy when generated, transmitted, distributed,
supplied or used for any purpose;
(j) "Government" means the Federal Government;
(k) "licence" means a licence issued for generation, transmission or distribution
under the Regulation of Generation, Transmission and Distribution of Electric
Power Act, 1997 (XL of 1997);
(l) "licence" means a holder of a licence;
(m) "person" includes any individual or any company, firm or cooperation whether
incorporated or not, or public servant or an employee of any, company, licensee
or electric power utility;
(n) "service line" means any electric supply-line through which energy is, or is
intended to be, supplied by a licensee,—
(i) to a single consumer either from a distributing main or immediately from
the licensee's premises; or
(ii) from a distributing main to a group of consumers on the same premises
of on adjoining premises supplied from the same point of the distributing
main;
(o) "tampering" or "tamper" includes interfering or creating hindrance in flow or
metering of electric power by unauthorized entry of access into metering system
or transmission and distribution lines either by breaking the seals or damaging
or destructing the same or in any manner interfering with the electric meter or
transmission line or distribution line or interfering with its original condition;
(p) "tariff" means the rates, charges terms and condition for generation of electric
power, transmission, inter-connection, distribution services and sales of electric
power to consumers by a licensee;
(q) "transmission" means the ownership, operation, management or control of
transmission facilities;
(r) "transmission facilities" means electrical transmission facilities including
electrical circuits, transformers and sub-stations operating at or above the
minimum transmission voltage; and
(s) "works" includes electric supply-lines and any buildings, machinery or
apparatus required to supply energy.

Source and verification

Source citation: PPC (Act XLV of 1860) s.462G: Pakistan Code portal consolidated official PDF 'THE PAKISTAN PENAL CODE' (Act No. XLV of 1860), p. 157, 158, ingested 2026-09-15. Automated transcription from official source (pypdf extraction, audited artifact repair); human admin re-check required before production.

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