Gasworks Clauses Act, 1871

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Penalty for failure to supply gas.

Penalties not cumulative.

36. Whenever the Undertakers neglect or refuse to give a supply of gas to any owner or occupier of premises within the limits of the special Act entitled to the same, under such pressure as is prescribed, they shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings for each day during which such default continues.

Whenever the Undertakers neglect or refuse to supply gas as by this Act required to all or any of the public lamps in accordance with the provisions of this Act, they shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings for each default.

If it shall be proved to the satisfaction of any two justices, not being shareholders in the undertaking, after hearing the parties, that on any day the gas supplied by the Undertakers is under less pressure, of less illuminating power, or of less purity than it ought to be according to the provisions of this or the special Act, the Undertakers shall in every such case forfeit and pay to the local authority or other persons making application for testing the gas such sum not exceeding twenty pounds as the justices shall determine.

Penalties imposed on the Undertakers for one and the same offence by several Acts of Parliament shall not be cumulative, and for such purpose the special Act and the Acts incorporated therewith shall be deemed several Acts.