Fixing and altering of charges

(1) The Company shall cause the meter connected to each consumer’s installation to be read as promptly as possible on or 20 Electricity about the last day of each month in each year, and an account rendered to the consumer showing the quantity of electricity registered by the meter since the previous reading thereof. (2) Each consumer shall pay to the Company within thirty days after the date of every such account the charges prescribed by the Company for the quantity of electricity noted thereon and all charges for construction, altering or repairing electrical installation including materials supplied; and if any consumer fails to do so, the Company shall cause the supply of electricity to be cut off from and not renewed to such consumer unless and until he pays the said charges and a labour charge of one dollar for the work involved in the disconnection and reconnection of his supply of electricity. And where two or more premises of a consumer are supplied with electricity by the Company and one of these premises shall have been disconnected on account of the consumer failing to pay the charges of the Company within the prescribed time, the Company shall cut off the supply of electricity to the other premises on the last day of the month in which the prescribed thirty days elapse and shall not renew the supply of electricity to any of the consumer’s premises until all charges due to the Company are paid in full.