Gas Supply Act 2003

This section applies if the distributor reasonably believes the customer has contravened section 130 by preventing any distribution officer of the distributor from safely reading or testing a meter connected to the distributor’s distribution pipeline or system.

The distributor may, by notice, require the customer to remedy the contravention within a stated period of at least 1 month.

If the customer does not comply with the notice, the distributor may install alternative metering or other equipment to measure or record a reticulated covered gas transported to the premises by remote or other suitable ways.

Subsection (3) does not limit another remedy the distributor has against the customer.

If the distributor acts under subsection (3), the distributor may, by notice, require the customer to pay the distributor the amount of the distributor’s costs reasonably incurred in taking the action.

If the customer does not comply with the notice, the distributor may recover the amount from the customer as a debt.