North Western Electricity and Power-Gas Act 1903
WHEREAS the erection of generating stations and works as hereinafter provided and the supply therefrom of electrical energy within the area of supply hereinafter defined and the manufacture and supply of power-gas for the purposes of motive power and heating but not of illumination within the same area would be of public and local advantage:

And whereas the persons in this Act named with others are willing at their own expense to construct such stations and works and undertake such manufactu...