Methods of charging

Methods of charging.-- (1) Where the licensee charges by any method approved by the Government in accordance with section 23, sub-section (3), clause (c) of the Jammu and Kashmir Electricity Act, any consumer who objects to that method may, by not less than one month's notice in writing require the licensee to charge him at the licensees option, either by the actual amount of energy supplied to him or by the electrical quantity contained in the supply, and thereafter the licensee shall not, except with the consent of the consumer, charge him by another method. (2) Before commencing to supply energy through any distributing main, the licensee shall give notice, by public advertisement, of the method by which he proposes to charge for energy so supplied ; and, where the licensee has given such notice, he shall not be entitled to change that method of charging without giving not less than one month's notice in writing of such change to the Government, to the local authority (if any) concerned, and to every consumer of energy who is supplied by him from such distributing main. (3) If the consumer is provided with a meter in pursuance of the provisions of section 26, sub-section (1), of the Jammu and Kashmir Electricity Act, and the licensee changes the method of charging for the energy supplied by him from the distributing main, the licensee shall bear the expense of providing a new meter, or such other apparatus as may be necessary by reason of the new method of charging.