- Laws of Fiji

Last Updated: 1 August 2017

5 Entry during continuance of supply

(1) Subject to subparagraphs (2) and (3), any officer authorised by a public electricity supplier may at all reasonable times, on the production of some duly authenticated document showing the officer’s authority, enter any premises to which a supply of electricity is being given by the public electricity supplier, or by a private electricity supplier (wholly or partly) through the public electricity supplier’s electric lines and electrical plant, for any of the following purposes, namely—

(a)inspecting any electric line or electrical plant belonging to the public electricity supplier;
(b)ascertaining the register of any electricity meter and, in the case of a prepayment meter, removing any money or tokens belonging to the public electricity supplier; or
(c)removing, inspecting or reinstalling any electricity meter or installing any substitute meter.

(2) Except where a supply of electricity is being given to the premises by a private electricity supplier (wholly or partly) through the public electricity supplier’s electric lines and electrical plant, subparagraph (1)(a) and (b) does not apply if—

(a)the consumer has applied in writing to the public electricity supplier for the public electricity supplier to cease to supply electricity to the premises; and
(b)the public electricity supplier has failed to do so within a reasonable time.

(3) Subparagraph (1)(c) does not apply in relation to the removal of a meter unless 2 working days’ notice is given to the occupier or the owner of the premises which is unoccupied.