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Penalty for injuring meters.
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70. If any person wilfully or by culpable negligence injures or suffers to be injured any meter or fittings belonging to a sanitary authority, or fraudulently alters the index to any meter, or prevents any meter from duly registering the quantity of water supplied, or fraudulently abstracts or uses water of the sanitary authority, he shall (without prejudice to any other right or remedy of the sanitary authority) be liable to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings, and the sanitary authority may in addition thereto recover the amount of any damage sustained. The existence of artificial means, under the control of the consumer, for causing any such alteration prevention abstraction or use shall be evidence that the consumer has fraudulently effected the same.
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