63. The Company, with the Consent of the Owner 31 & 32 Vict., and Occupier of any Building, may lay any Pipe, Branch, Cap. 106. or other proper Apparatus from any Main or Branch Pipe into, through, or against the Building for the Purpose of Power to lay lighting it, and may, with the like Consent, provide and Pipes against set up any Apparatus proper for securing to the Building a proper and complete Supply of Gas, and for measuring and ascertaining the Extent of the Supply, and may, with the like Consent, repair, replace, alter, or discontinue and remove any such Pipe or Apparatus. Buildings. 64. Before any Person connects or disconnects any Notice to Meter by which any of the Company's Gas is intended to Company of putting up be or has been registered, he shall give not less than Meters. Twenty-four Hours' Notice in Writing to the Company of his Intention so to do, and if any Person fail so to do every Person so offending shall for every such Offence forfeit not exceeding Five Pounds. Meters. 65. Every Consumer of Gas of the Company Repair of shall at all Times, at his own Expense, keep every Meter belonging to him, whereby any Gas of the Company is registered, in proper Order, and proper and sufficient in all respects for correctly registering the Gas, and in default thereof the Company may cease to supply Gas through the Meter, and the Company shall at all reasonable Times have Access to and be at liberty to take off, remove, test, inspect, and replace any Meter belonging to a Consumer, the taking off, removal, testing, inspecting, and replacing to be done at the Expense of the Company if the Meter be found in proper Order, and proper and sufficient in all respects, but otherwise at the Expense of the Consumer. 66. The Company may make Meters, and may let for Hire any Meter for ascertaining the Quantity of Gas consumed or supplied, and any Fittings thereto, for such Meter Rent in accordance with this Act, and on such Terms with respect to the Repair of the Meter and Fittings, and for securing the Safety and Return to the Company of the Meter, as are agreed upon between the Hirer and the Company, and the Meter Rent shall be recoverable in the same Manner as the Gas Rents; and the Meters and Fittings shall not be subject to Distress or to the Landlord's Claim for Rent of the Premises where the same are used, nor to be taken in Execution under any Process of a Court of Law or Equity, or any Proceedings in Bankruptcy, against any Person in whose Possession the same are. Power to let Meters. 31 & 32 Vict., Cap. 106. Power to remove Meters and Fittings. Fraudulently injuring Meters. For preventing Waste of Gas. 67. The Company, after Twenty-four Hours' Notice in Writing under the Hand of the Secretary or some other Officer of the Company to the Occupier, or if unoccupied then to the Owner or Lessee of any Land, House, or Building in which any Pipe, Meter, or Fitting belonging to the Company is laid or fixed, and through or in which the Supply of Gas is from any Cause other than the Fault of the Company discontinued, may enter the Premises within the Hours of Nine in the Morning and Four in the Afternoon for the Purpose of removing, and may remove, the Pipes. Meters, or Fittings, repairing all Damages caused by the Entry or Removal; and every such Notice shall be served by being delivered to the Person for whom it is intended, or left at his usual or last known Place of Abode, or if the Person or his Address be not known to the Company after due Inquiry, then by being affixed on some conspicuous Part of the Premises. 68. Every Person who wilfully, fraudulently, or by culpable Negligence injures or suffers to be injured any Meter or Fitting of the Company, or fraudulently alters the Index to any Meter, or prevents any Meter from duly registering the Quantity of Gas supplied, or connects with a Meter any Gas Burners of a Number or Size greater than the Number or Size proportioned to the Size and Capacity of the Meter, shall, without Prejudice to any other Right or Remedy for the Protection of the Company or the Punishment of the Offender, for every such Offence forfeit and pay to the Company not exceeding Five Pounds, and the Company may, in addition thereto, recover the Amount of any Damages by them sustained, and, notwithstanding any Contract with respect to the Supply of Gas to the Person so offending, the Company may also discontinue the Supply of Gas to the Person so offending until the Damage or Injury is remedied, and the Amount of the Damages are paid; and the Existence of artificial Means for the Alteration or Prevention when the Meter is in the Custody or Control of the Consumer shall be primâ facie Evidence that the same has been fraudulently, knowingly, and wilfully caused by the Consumer using the Meter. 69. If and whenever any Person supplied with Gas by the Company wilfully does, or causes or suffers to be done, anything in contravention of any of the Provisions of this Act, or wilfully fails to do anything which under this Act ought to be done for the Prevention of the Waste, Misuse, or undue Consumption of the Company's Gas, the Company may cut off or stop any Pipe by or through which Gas is supplied to him, and cease to supply him with Gas so long as the Cause of Damage or Injury remains or is not remedied, and also may recover in any Court of competent Jurisdiction from every Person so offending the Amount of all Loss, Damage, or Injury which the Company sustain by reason of any such Thing or Failure, and the Remedies of the Company under this Section shall be in addition to their other Remedies in that Behalf. 31 & 32 Vict., Cap. 106. Gas. 70. In case any Person who has been supplied with Recovery of Gas by the Company, or who is liable under this Act Charges for tɔ any Payment in respect of a Supply of Gas, or the Use or Repair of any Meter, fails for Fourteen Days after Demand thereof by the Company, their Agent or Collector to pay the Amount due in respect of the Supply or of the Meter, any Justice, on Application by the Company, shall issue his Summons to the Person requiring him to appear at a Time and Place named therein, and then and there to show Cause why the Sum so demanded should not be paid; and if on the Appearance of the Person, or, in default of Appearance, after Proof of the Ser vice of the Summons, either personally or at his last known Place of Abode or of Business, sufficient Cause be not shown to the contrary, the Justice shall issue his Warrant of Distress for the Seizure and Sale of the Goods and Chattels of the Person for the Recovery of the Amount proved before the Justice to be due from the Person, with such Costs to be settled by the Justice, and including the Costs of cutting off the Gas, if the same be cut off by the Company, as the Justice thinks just and reasonable. [As to above s. 70, see also same Company's Act, 1872, s. 17, pp. 516, 517.] 71. Whenever any Person fails to pay any Gas Rent or Meter Rent or Sum due and payable by him to the Company, the Company may recover the same in any Court of competent Jurisdiction for the Recovery of Debts of like Amount, and the Remedies of the Company under this Section shall be in addition to their other Remedies for the Recovery of the Rent or Sum. 72. The Register of the Meter shall be primâ facie Evidence of the Quantity of Gas consumed by any Customer of the Company, and in respect of which any Rent is charged and sought to be recovered by the Company. 73. Penalties imposed on the Company for one and the same Offence by several Acts of Parliament are not Recovery of Register of Meter to be Penalties on Company not cumulative. 31 & 32 Vict., Cap. 106. Liability to Gas Rent not to disqualify Justices. Company to be subject to amended Gas Act as well without as within the City. Company not exempt from Provisions of cumulative, and for that Purpose this Act and the Acts incorporated therewith are several Acts. 74. Except as is by this Act otherwise expressly provided, no Justice or Judge of any Court shall be disqualified from acting in the Execution of this Act by reason of his being liable to the Payment of any Gas Rent or Meter Rent or other Charge under this Act. *** 109. If the Bill, the Short Title of which when passed is intended to be "The City of London Gas Act" (in this Act referred to as the City Gas Act), now pending, pass into a Law in the present Session, then the Company and their Undertaking shall be subject to the Provisions of the City Gas Act without as well as within the City of London and the Liberties thereof, and such Act shall extend to the whole Undertaking of the Company; and for the Purposes of the City Gas Act in relation to the Undertaking of the Company beyond the Limits of the City of London and the Liberties thereof the Metropolitan Board of Works (a) shall have all the same Rights, Powers, Authorities, and Obligations as are given to or imposed upon the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the City of London in the City Gas Act as fully as if that Board had been named in such Act instead of the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons, so far as relates to the Part of the Undertaking of the Company beyond the Limits of the City. [So much of the above s. 109 as extends the repealed sections, 25 to 28, 33 to 84, 91 and 92, all inclusive, of the City of London Gas Act, 1868, to places beyond the limits of the city of London and liberties thereof, repealed by Gaslight and Coke Company Act, 1876, s. 8, p. 518; and Schedule B, part 1, p. 525. 110. Nothing in this Act contained shall exempt the Company or their Gasworks from the Provisions of *** General Acts. (b) the Act for regulating Measures used in Sales of Gas, as amended by subsequent Acts, or any other General Act already or hereafter passed in the present or any future Session of Parliament for regulating Gas Companies in the Metropolis, or for regulating the Supply or Sale of Gas in the Metropolis, and applicable to the Company, or from any future Revision and Alteration by Parliament of the Gas Rents and Meter Rents by this Act authorized. *** (a) Now London County Council. See Local Government Act, 1888, s. 40 (8), p. 362. (b) Words "the Metropolis Gas Act, 1860, or," omitted, repealed by same Company's Act, 1873. s. 4. p. 517. But see s. 8 of this Act, p. 508. CITY OF LONDON GAS ACT, 1868. (Applicable to Gaslight and Coke Company.) See pages 186-191. 33 & 34 Vict., Cap. 121. COM GASLIGHT AND COKE *** PANY'S ACT, 1870. 7. The Company (a) may, with respect to any gas The laying down and maintaining outside the limits The payments to be made for and the terms and And for the purposes of carrying into effect any such (a) The Gaslight and Coke Company. (Preamble.) (b) The Gaslight and Coke Company's Act, 1868. (Preamble.) Power to gas com- agreements. LL |