- Type
- Act
- Year
- २०४१ BS · 1984 AD
- Status
- In force
- Category
- खण्ड १३: बन, वातावरण तथा जलस्रोत · Volume 13: Nature, Environment and Water Resources
- Official text
- Official page Official text (PDF)
- English translation
- Official English translation archived copy: the original page is no longer online
Includes amendments up to: 2049 BS. Translations may not include later amendments. The Nepali text is the authoritative law.
Analysis drawn from official reports, court rulings and published research, each cited. Figures are being double-checked against the source documents; corrections are welcome.
What does it do?
- The Act establishes the Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA), an autonomous corporate body headquartered in Kathmandu, to make electricity generation, transmission and distribution efficient, reliable and accessible. It replaced the Nepal Electricity Corporation Act 2019 and took over its property and liabilities. Its capital is divided into shares; until a general meeting elects directors, the eight-member board is chaired by the energy minister (or a special-class official the government names), with the energy and finance secretaries and government-nominated experts in finance, consumer interests (including at least one Dalit) and engineering.विद्युत् उत्पादन, प्रसारण र वितरणलाई सक्षम, भरपर्दो र सर्वसुलभ बनाउन यस ऐनले काठमाडौंमा प्रधान कार्यालय रहने स्वशासित संगठित संस्थाका रूपमा नेपाल विद्युत् प्राधिकरण स्थापना गरेको छ; यसले नेपाल विद्युत् कर्पोरेशन ऐन, २०१९ खारेज गरी त्यसको सम्पत्ति र दायित्व लिएको हो। प्राधिकरणको पुँजी शेयरमा विभाजित हुन्छ; साधारण सभाले सञ्चालक निर्वाचित नगरेसम्म आठ सदस्यीय सञ्चालक समितिको अध्यक्षता ऊर्जामन्त्री (वा सरकारले तोकेको विशिष्ट श्रेणीको कर्मचारी) ले गर्छन्, जसमा ऊर्जा र अर्थ सचिव तथा सरकारले मनोनीत गरेका वित्त, उपभोक्ता हित (कम्तीमा एक दलितसहित) र इन्जिनियरिङका विज्ञ रहन्छन्। Nepal Law Commission (lawcommission.gov.np), consolidated official text Sections 3–9, pp. 2–5; Section 38, p. 14
- The NEA recommends power-supply policy to the government; generates, transmits and distributes electricity under the law; plans, builds and operates power stations, substations and lines; supplies electricity for industry, agriculture and households; sets service charges other than the tariff (meter connection, transfer, capacity increase); and runs research and training. It may borrow at home and abroad, collect tariffs and fees, buy power from private producers, trade power with other countries (foreign loans and cross-border trade need prior government approval), control unauthorised use, and disconnect customers who do not pay.प्राधिकरणले विद्युत् आपूर्तिसम्बन्धी नीति सरकारलाई सिफारिस गर्छ; कानूनबमोजिम विद्युत् उत्पादन, प्रसारण र वितरण गर्छ; विद्युत् गृह, सबस्टेसन र लाइनको योजना, निर्माण र सञ्चालन गर्छ; उद्योग, कृषि र जनताका लागि बिजुली उपलब्ध गराउँछ; महसुलबाहेकका सेवा शुल्क (मिटर जडान, नामसारी, क्षमता वृद्धि) तोक्छ; र अनुसन्धान र तालिम गर्छ। यसले स्वदेश–विदेशबाट ऋण लिन, महसुल र शुल्क उठाउन, निजी क्षेत्रबाट बिजुली किन्न, विदेशसँग बिजुली किनबेच गर्न (विदेशी ऋण र सीमापार व्यापारमा सरकारको पूर्वस्वीकृति चाहिने), अनधिकृत उपयोग नियन्त्रण गर्न र महसुल नतिर्ने ग्राहकको लाइन काट्न सक्छ। Nepal Law Commission (lawcommission.gov.np), consolidated official text Sections 19–23, pp. 7–10
- The government may direct the NEA to provide a service, change or stop work, or not do something, and must reimburse the costs of such directed services; the NEA may not sell property without government approval, pays no local taxes, must send the government an annual report with its audit, and may be dissolved by the government in set circumstances. Directors' pay and facilities are as prescribed (Section 14).सरकारले प्राधिकरणलाई कुनै सेवा सञ्चालन गर्न, काम परिवर्तन वा बन्द गर्न वा कुनै काम नगर्न निर्देशन दिन सक्छ र त्यस्तो निर्देशनअनुसार काम गर्दा लागेको खर्च सरकारले दिनुपर्छ; प्राधिकरणले सरकारको स्वीकृति बिना सम्पत्ति बेचबिखन गर्न पाउँदैन, स्थानीय कर तिर्दैन, लेखापरीक्षणसहितको वार्षिक प्रतिवेदन सरकारमा पठाउनुपर्छ, र तोकिएका अवस्थामा सरकारले यसलाई विघटन गर्न सक्छ। सञ्चालकको पारिश्रमिक र सुविधा तोकिएबमोजिम हुन्छ (दफा १४)। Nepal Law Commission (lawcommission.gov.np), consolidated official text Sections 14, 24–26, 32, 34, pp. 6–13
Gaps, loopholes and improvement ideas
Ideas to fix it
- The High-Level Economic Reform Suggestion Commission recommends making the necessary legal and organisational arrangements to convert the NEA's eight regional directorates into electricity distribution companies working at provincial level.विद्युत् वितरणको काम प्रादेशिक स्तरबाट गराउन नेपाल विद्युत् प्राधिकरणअन्तर्गतका आठवटा क्षेत्रीय निर्देशनालयलाई विद्युत् वितरण कम्पनीमा रूपान्तरण गर्न आवश्यक कानूनी र संगठनात्मक व्यवस्था गर्न उच्चस्तरीय आर्थिक सुधार सुझाव आयोगले सिफारिस गरेको छ। Proposed by: High-Level Economic Reform Suggestion Commission (2081) High-Level Economic Reform Commission (उच्चस्तरीय आर्थिक सुधार सुझाव आयोग), submitted to the Ministry of Finance
- The Auditor General notes that under Section 14 NEA directors' pay and facilities are 'as prescribed' (and under the Nepal Rastra Bank Act set by the board itself), and recommends that the law provide for the government to fix the pay and facilities of public enterprise boards.दफा १४ अनुसार सञ्चालकको पारिश्रमिक र सुविधा 'तोकिएबमोजिम' हुने (र नेपाल राष्ट्र बैंक ऐनअनुसार सञ्चालक समितिले नै तोक्ने) उल्लेख गर्दै सार्वजनिक संस्थानका सञ्चालक समितिको पारिश्रमिक र सुविधा नेपाल सरकारले निर्धारण गर्ने व्यवस्था कानूनमा गर्नुपर्ने महालेखापरीक्षकको सुझाव छ। Proposed by: Office of the Auditor General (63rd Annual Report) Office of the Auditor General, Nepal · Nepal Law Commission (lawcommission.gov.np), consolidated official text
Where does it conflict with other laws?
No conflict with another law is documented in the sources we have reviewed so far.