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Rule V.—Any local authority, company, or person intending to apply for a license or provisional order must at the time of lodging their memorial with the Board of Trade in the case of a license, and on or before the 1st November in the case of a provisional order, give notice in writing of their intended application to every local authority, company, or person authorised to supply electricity under statutory powers within the district to which the proposed application refers .

Rule VI.—Except in the case of an application by the local authority for the district a provisional order will not be granted by the Board of Trade except to the body or person by whom the notice required by section 4, sub-section 1, of the Electric Lighting Act, 1882,^[1] was given .

Rule VII.—In any case where a local authority, company, or person is required by the Acts to give notice to the local authority of the district, " in such manner as the Board of Trade may direct or approve," such notice must be given in writing, and must be served, either by leaving the same at the offices of the said local authority on or before the appointed day or by forwarding the same by post in a registered letter so that the same would in ordinary course of post be delivered on or before the appointed day.

Rule VIII.—Every application for a license or provisional order must be made by memorial signed or sealed by, or on behalf of, the applicants, headed with a short title descriptive of the proposed undertaking (corresponding with that at the head of the advertisement hereinafter mentioned, see ), addressed to the Board of Trade. With the memorial must be deposited six copies of the draft license or order, as applied for, with the schedule or schedules (if any) referred to therein.

Rule IX.—The deposited copies of the draft license or order must be in print. They must be printed on one side only and each schedule annexed must begin a new page.

The names and addresses of the parliamentary agents or solicitors for the license or order must be printed on the outside of the draft.

There must be a notice at the end of the draft stating that objections are to be made by letter addressed to the Board of Trade, marked on the outside of the cover enclosing it "Electric Lighting Acts," and that such letter is to be sent to the Board