section 26
Meter reading
The Sikkim Water Supply and Water Charges Act, 2025Infrastructure202543 sections
Statutory text
- (1) The competent authority may authorize any person to take reading of meters installed in any premises to which water is supplied under this Act and make an entry thereof in a register as may be prescribed.
- (2) Every entry in the register maintained under sub-section
- (1) shall be prima facie evidence of the quantity of water consumed.
- (3) When water is supplied in accordance with the provisions of this Act through a meter, it shall be presumed that the quantity indicated by the meter has been consumed until the contrary is proved.
- (4) The competent authority may authorise any person to test any water fitting used in connection with water supplied by him.
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