Subject to the provision to this Act the Council shall in respect of the New Delhi areas under its jurisdiction have all the powers and obligations of a licensee under the Electricity Act, 1910 (9 of 1910), and this chapter shall be deemed to be the licence of the council for the purposes of that Act:

Provided that nothing in sections 3 to 12 of, or in Clauses I to IX of the Scheduled to, that Act relating to the duties and obligations of a licensee shall apply to the council.