Gasworks Clauses Act, 1847

Undertakers may enter buildings for ascertaining quantities of gas consumed.

Penalty for obstructing them.

15. [1] The clerk, engineer, or other officer duly appointed for the purpose by the undertakers may at all reasonable times enter any building or place lighted with gas supplied by the undertakers, in order to inspect the meters, fittings, and works for regulating the supply of gas, and for the purpose of ascertaining the quantity of a gas consumed or supplied; and if any person hinder such officer as aforesaid from entering and making such inspection as aforesaid at any reasonable time, he shall for every such offence forfeit to the undertakers a sum not exceeding five pounds.