Gasworks Clauses Act, 1871

Appointment and powers of gas examiners.

29. The local authority of any district within the limits of the special Act, where the gas is not supplied by such local authority, may after the passing of the special Act from time to time appoint, or may appoint and keep appointed, a competent and impartial person to be a gas examiner to test the gas at the testing place provided in conformity with the provisions of this Act; and such gas examiner may there test the illuminating power and purity of the gas supplied by the Undertakers, on any or every day between the hours of five o’clock and ten o’clock in the afternoon from the first day of October to the thirty-first day of March, both inclusive, and on any or every day between the hours of eight o’clock and eleven o’clock in the afternoon from the first day of April to the thirtieth day of September, both inclusive.