LawgistThe Oriental Gas Company Act
3Notice to be served on persons having control, etc., before breaking up streets or opening drains
Before the said Company proceed to open or break up any street, bridge, sewer, drain, or tunnel, they shall give to the Municipal Commissioners for the Town of Calcutta, or other persons under whose control or management the same may be, or to their Clerk, Surveyor, or other officer, notice in writing of their intention to open or break up the same, not less than three clear days before beginning such work; except in cases of emergency arising from defects in any of the pipes or other works, and then so soon as is possible after the beginning of the work, or the necessity for the same shall have arisen.
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- 1 Power to break up streets, etc., under superintendence, and to open drains
- 2 Not to enter on private land without consent
- 3 Notice to be served on persons having control, etc., before breaking up streets or opening drains
- 4 Streets or drains not to be broken up except under superintendence of persons having control of the same. If persons having the control, etc., fail to superintend, Company may proceed with the work
- 5 Streets broken up to be reinstated without delay
- 6 Penalty for delay in reinstating streets
- 7 In case of delay, other parties may reinstate, and recover the expenses. Expense how to be ascertained and recovered
- 8 Power to enter buildings for ascertaining quantity of gas consumed
- 9 Recovery of rent due for gas
- 10 Power to take away pipes when supply of gas discontinued
- 11 Meters not liable to distress for rent, etc
- 12 Penalty for fraudulently using gas
- 13 Penalty for wilfully damaging pipes
- 14 Satisfaction for accidentally damaging pipes
- 15 Penalty for causing water to be corrupted. Daily penalty during the continuance of the offence
- 16 Daily penalty during escape of Gas after notice
- 17 Penalty if water be fouled by Gas
- 18 Power to examine Gas-pipes to ascertain cause of water being fouled
- 19 Expenses to abide result of examination
- 20 How expenses to be ascertained
- 21 Liability to indictments for nuisance
- 22 Copies of the original Deed of Association and of all rules, etc., to be kept for inspection at the office of the Company in Calcutta and in the office of the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies, or the Keeper of the Records of the Supreme Court at Fort William
- 23 Service of process
- 24 Recovery of penalties, etc
- 25 Levy by distress
- 26 No distress unlawful for want of form, etc
- 27 Interpretatio
