Gasworks Clauses Act, 1871

Undertakers may require consumers to use meters.

22 & 23 Vict. c. 66.

13. Every consumer of gas supplied by the Undertakers shall, if required to do so by them, consume such gas by a meter duly stamped under the authority of the Sale of Gas Act, 1859, and being a legal meter within the meaning of the said Act, or by a meter supplied or approved by the Undertakers: Provided always, that where the provisions of the said Act are in force no meter shall be used unless the same shall be a legal meter within the meaning of the said Act, and that elsewhere the Undertakers shall not refuse to approve of any meter which when duly tested according to the rules contained in the said Act for regulating measures used in sales of gas is found to be correct within the meaning of the said Act.