Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) Where electricity
is supplied to a consumer and the quantity supplied is not ascertained by a
meter; and the consumer does or permits or suffers any other person to do any
one or more of the following things, namely —
(a) uses
any electric fitting other than such as has been provided or approved of by
the supply authority, or of larger dimensions or consuming capacity than the
consumer has contracted to use; or
(b) uses
electricity for a longer time or in greater quantities than he has contracted
to pay for; or
(c) uses
the electricity in a manner not authorised by the contract under which the
electricity is supplied; or
(d)
contrary to the provisions of this Act, supplies any other person with any
electricity supplied to him,
the consumer commits
an offence.
Penalty: $100.
For each separate and further offence committed
under section 71 of the Interpretation Act 1984 : $50.
(2) The supply
authority may cut off the supply of electricity from the premises of the
consumer who is responsible for the doing of any act mentioned in subsection
(1) notwithstanding any contract made between the supply authority and such
consumer and still subsisting.
[Section 49 amended: No. 113 of 1965 s. 8; No. 89
of 1994 s. 79; No. 63 of 1996 s. 6; No. 59 of 2004 s. 141.]