Belfast and North East Ireland Electricity and Power-Gas Act 1904
WHEREAS the erection of generating stations and works as herein-after provided and the supply therefrom of electrical energy within the area of supply herein-after 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 generat...