5(1)Any officer authorised by a public electricity supplier may at all reasonable times, on the production of some duly authenticated document showing his 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 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 supplier;
(c)removing, inspecting or re-installing 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, sub-paragraph (1)(a) and (b) above does not apply if—
(a)the consumer has applied in writing to the supplier for the supplier to cease to supply electricity to the premises; and
(b)the supplier has failed to do so within a reasonable time.
(3)Sub-paragraph (1)(c) above does not apply in relation to the removal of a meter unless two working days’ notice is given to the occupier, or the owner of the premises if they are unoccupied.