https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=174006 Where section 6 of the Indian Electricity Act, 1910 made the State Electricity Board the primary purchaser of an undertaking, the State Government could exercise the purchase option only if the Board had not been constituted or had not elected to purchase. The prescribed eighteen months' advance intimation under sub-section (4) could not be demanded when compliance was impossible from the date the provision came into force. Applying lex non cogit ad impossibilia, the Court treated the Board's notice to purchase as effective and rejected any deemed non-election. The State Government therefore did not acquire the purchase option, and its notice was ineffectual. en-us Thu, 25 Feb 1965 00:00:00 +0530 Sat, 26 Sep 2015 14:01:33 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=174006 Where section 6 of the Indian Electricity Act, 1910 made the State Electricity Board the primary purchaser of an undertaking, the State Government could exercise the purchase option only if the Board had not been constituted or had not elected to purchase. The prescribed eighteen months' advance intimation under sub-section (4) could not be demanded when compliance was impossible from the date the provision came into force. Applying lex non cogit ad impossibilia, the Court treated the Board's notice to purchase as effective and rejected any deemed non-election. The State Government therefore did not acquire the purchase option, and its notice was ineffectual. Case-Laws Indian Laws Thu, 25 Feb 1965 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=174006