Section 163 — Power for licensee to enter premises and to remove fittings or other apparatus of licensee.

163. Power for licensee to enter premises and to remove fittings or other apparatus of licensee.–
(1) A licensee or any person duly authorised by a licence may, at any reasonable time, and on informing 
the occupier of his intention, enter any premises to which electricity is, or has been, supplied by him, of 
any premises or land, under, over, along, across, in or upon which the electric supply-lines or other works 
have been lawfully placed by him for the purpose of– 

(a) inspecting, testing, repairing or altering the electric supply-lines, meters, fittings, works and 
apparatus for the supply of electricity belonging to the licensee; or 

(b) ascertaining the amount of electricity supplied or the electrical quantity contained in the 
supply; or 

(c) removing where a supply of electricity is no longer required, or where the licensee is 
authorised to take away and cut off such supply, any electric supply-lines, meters, fittings, works or 
apparatus belonging to the licensee. 

(2) A licensee or any person authorised as aforesaid may also, in pursuance of a special order in this 
behalf made by an Executive Magistrate and after giving not less than twenty-four hours notice in writing 
to the occupier,– 

(a) enter any premises or land referred to in sub-section (1) for any of the purposes mentioned 
therein; 

(b) enter any premises to which electricity is to be supplied by him, for the purpose of examining 
and testing the electric wires fittings, works and apparatus for the use of electricity belonging to the 
consumer. 

(3) Where a consumer refuses to allow a licensee or any person authorised as aforesaid to enter his 
premises or land in pursuance of the provisions of sub-section (1) or, sub-section (2), when such licensee 
or person has so entered, refuses to allow him to perform any act which he is authorised by those         
sub-sections to perform, or fails to give reasonable facilities for such entry or performance, the licensee 
may, after the expiry of twenty-four hours from the service of a notice in writing on the consumer, cut off 
the supply to the consumer for so long as such refusal or failure continues, but for no longer. 



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