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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.