ELECTRIC POWER SECTOR REFORM ACT

Section 73: Amendment of Licences.

2005Section 73 of 101Federal Republic of Nigeria

(1) Subject to this section, the Commission may, at any time, amend a licence or any term or condition of a licence:
(a) if the licensee requests the amendment; or
(b) if the amendment is pursuant to a condition of the licence imposed under section 71(7) ; or
(c) upon receiving a complaint from any consumer, eligible customer, consumer association, association of eligible customers, or other licensee; or
(d) on its own initiative.
(2) Where a licensee makes an application for the amendment of a licence, the licensee shall publish a notice of the proposed amendments to the licence in accordance with such directions as may be given by the Commission, stating the period, prescribed by the Commission, within which objections or representations in connection with the amendments may be made to the Commission, and the Commission shall not amend any licence until all objections or representations received by the Commission have been considered and determined.
(3) In the case of an application proposing amendments to a licence of a licensee who provides services to an area covering a building or place occupied by the Federal Ministry of Defence for defence purposes, the Commission shall obtain the consent of the Federal Ministry of Defence before making the amendment to the licence.
(4) Before making amendments in a licence otherwise than on the application of the licensee, the Commission shall publish the proposed amendments, stating the period within which objections or representations may be made to the Commission, and the Commission shall not amend any such licence until all such objections or representations received by the Commission have been considered and determined.

Cite this section

Section 73, ELECTRIC POWER SECTOR REFORM ACT (2005).

https://repo.podus.ai/laws/electric-power-sector-reform-act/section/73/