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(e) for any incidental and supplementary matters for which the competent authority thinks it expedient for the purposes of the order to provide, including, in particular, the entering and inspection of premises to which the order relates by persons authorized in that behalf by the competent authority with a view to securing compliance with the order;
and an order under this regulation may prohibit the doing of anything regulated by the order except under the authority of a licence granted by such authority or person as may be specified in the order, and may be made so as to apply either to persons or undertakings generally or to any particular person or under- takings generally or to any particular person or undertaking or class of persons or undertakings, and either to the whole or to any part of any undertakings, and so as to have effect either throughout the Colony or in any particular area therein.
(2) A competent authority may, if it appears to that authority to be necessary so to do in the public interest, make or give as respects any undertaking all or any orders or directions which might have been made or given under paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (1) of regulation 73 by an authority which is a competent authority for the purposes of this regulation, if the undertaking had been a production or distribution undertaking and had been declared under that sul--regulation to be a controlled undertaking and paragraphs (b) and (c) of that sub-regulation shall apply accordingly.
(3) Where the right to make charges in connexion with the carrying on of any undertaking with respect to which an order may be made under this regulation is limited by law, any order so made in relation to that undertaking may authorize the under- takers to make in that connexion charges in excess of, or in addition to, or otherwise varying from, those which they would otherwise be authorized to make.
(4) A competent authority, if it appears to that authority to be necessary so to do in the public interest, may, subject to any general or special instructions of the Governor, carry on the whole or any part of any existing undertaking, or authorize a person to carry on the whole or any part of any existing under- taking, in accordance with any instructions of the competent authority; and while by virtue of this sub-regulation a competent authority or a person so authorized is carrying on the whole or any part of an undertaking-
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(a) the said authority or person shall be decmed
to be acting as the agent of the undertakers, except that the undertakers shall not have any right to control the carrying on of the undertaking or part of the undertaking; and
(b) the undertakers shall not be bound, or, as the case may be, shall not in respect of such matters as may bu specified by order of the competent authority be bound, by any obligation or limitation imposed on the undertakers by or by virtue of any Ordinance or other instrument determining their functions,
(5) A competent authority may, to such extent and subject to such restrictions as it thinks proper, delegate all or any of its functions under this regulation to any specified persons or class of persons.
(6) For the avoidance of doubt, it is hereby declared that the powers conferred by this regulation may be exercised as respects any undertaking whether or not the undertaking has been declared to be a controlled undertaking and that sub- regulation (2) of this regulation authorizes the making of any such orders or the giving of any such directions as are therein mentioned in relation to any undertaking, notwithstanding that the undertaking is being carried on under sub-regulation (4) of this regulation by a person authorized in that behalf by the competent authority. The powers of regulating or prohibiting the movement of articles contained in sub-regulation (1) of this regulation shall include the power to regulate and prohibit the importation and exportation of articles into and out of the Colony.
(7) In this regulation-
(a) "essential work" means work appearing to the competent authority to be essential in the public interest; and
(6) "undertaking" means any public utility under- taking or any enterprise concerning industry, commerce, agricul- ture or any fishery, and "undertakers” in relation to any such enterprise means the persons by whom it is carried on ; and any reference in this regulation to articles shall be construed as including a reference to substances, vehicles, vessels or animals and also as including a reference to electricity.
73. (1) If the Governor is satisfied that in the public interest Controlled
under- it is expedient that any production or distribution undertaking, or takings. any class or description of such undertakings, should become subject to the provisions of this regulation, he may by order