In this Act unless the context otherwise requires -:
"Commission" means the Public Utilities Commission established under section 1 of this Act;
"consumer" means a person or his successor who purchases, receives or makes use of any service provided by a public utility and does not deliver or resell the service to others;
“export" means the provision of the service to any other country, VALCO or a free zone area in Ghana;
"licensing authority" means anybody or authority with power under any enactment to grant licence or rights to a public utility; person administration of the public utility; responsible for the day-to-day
"public utility" means any person engaged in the provision for a fee, whether directly or indirectly, of any of the following services to the public -
(a). the supply, transmission or distribution of electricity;
(b). the supply, transmission or distribution of water;
(c). other public utility services excluding a service involving or related to a petroleum product, that the Commission shall by legislative instrument prescribe on recommendation of the Minister with responsibility for the service”;
“rate" means fee, payment or charge in the form of money for any service
provided by a public utility; "service" includes the supplying or furnishing of any commodity derived directly from the business in which a public utility is engaged to the consumer and the placing at the disposal of the consumer the facilities employed in or connected with the supply of that commodity.