Gas Regulation Act, 1920

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Penalties for failure to comply with prescription of gas referees.

8. If the undetakers fail to comply with any lawful prescription of the gas referees, or to provide or maintain any testing place, apparatus or materials, or any other matter or thing prescribed therein, or to afford to the gas examiner or gas referees access to any testing place or works in accordance with the requirements of this Act, or to afford or furnish any facilities or information in accordance with the requirements of this Act, the undertakers shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding twenty-five pounds, or in the ase of a continuing offence twenty-five pounds, or in the case of a continuing offence twenty-five pounds for each day after such conviction during which such offence continues:

Provided that no proceedings under this section shall be taken—

(a) unless the Board of Trade, after giving the undertakers an opportunity of being heard, consent thereto; and

(b) in the case of the failure to comply with any lawful prescription, until after the expiration of the period within the undertakers may under this Act appeal against the prescription; or

(c) if the undertakers have appealed as aforesaid, unless or until either such appeal is withdrawn or the chief gas examiner has given a decision thereon.