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Gas Act 1986

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Entry on discontinuance of supply

16(1)Where—

(a)a public gas supplier is authorised by any provision of this Act (including any such provision as applied by such an agreement as is mentioned in section 14(4) of this Act) to cut off or discontinue the supply of gas to any premises ;

(b)a person occupying premises supplied with gas by a public gas supplier ceases to require such a supply ;

(c)a person entering into occupation of any premises previously supplied with gas by a public gas supplier does not take a supply of gas from the supplier ; or

(d)a person entering into occupation of any premises previously supplied with gas through a meter belonging to a public gas supplier does not hire or borrow that meter,

any officer authorised by the supplier, after twenty-four hours' notice to the occupier, or to the owner or lessee of the premises if they are unoccupied, may at all reasonable times, on production of some duly authenticated document showing his authority, enter the premises for the purpose of removing any gas fitting.

(2)The notice required to be given by sub-paragraph (1) above may, in the case of unoccupied premises the owner or lessee of which is unknown to the supplier and cannot be ascertained after diligent inquiry, be given by affixing it upon a conspicuous part of the premises not less than forty-eight hours before the premises are entered.

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