'Consumer' means any person who is supplied with electricity for his own use by a licensee and includes any person whose premises are connected for the purpose of receiving electricity with the works of a licensee or a person whose electricity supply is disconnected by a licensee or the person who has applied for connection for receiving electricity from a licensee, as the case may be;

“Open Access” means the non-discriminatory provision for the use of transmission lines or distribution systems or associated facilities with such lines or systems by any consumer or licensee or a person engaged in generation in accordance with the Regulations specified by the Commission.

Words and expressions used and not defined in the Regulations but defined in the Act shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Act. Expressions used herein but not specifically defined in the Regulations or in the Act but defined under any law passed by a competent legislature and applicable to the electricity industry in the state shall have the meaning assigned to them in such law. Subject to the above, expressions used herein but not specifically defined in these Regulations or in the Act or any law passed by a competent legislature shall have the meaning as is generally assigned in the electricity industry.

In accordance with Section 87 of the Act, the Commission shall, by notification constitute with effect from such date as it may specify in such notification a Committee to be known as State Advisory Committee. The Committee shall consist of not more than twenty-one (21) committee members with a view to reflect a balance of various interest, groups in the state power sector as outlined in Section 87(2) of the Act regarding being had to the representatives of the Power Sector with a significant understanding and contribution from the following sectors.

Where the consultants have to incur expenditure on travel and stay at a place away from the normal place of residence, the Commission will reimburse DA by allowing an additional expenditure in lump sum as indicated in the table below. The number of days on which this lump sum will be payable will be determined by the Commission as appropriate in each case. The cost of travel will be separately reimbursed by an appropriate class of travel not lower than that permitted for a Grade-I gazette officer of the Government of Bihar.