33 Restoration or continuation of supply of water, gas or electricity
Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 (1976 c 57) | Legislation

33  Restoration or continuation of supply of water, gas or electricity

(1)     If any premises in the area of a district council, a London borough council or the Common Council[, or a county or county borough council in Wales,] are occupied as a dwelling and the supply of water, gas or electricity to the premises—

(a)     is cut off in consequence of the failure of the owner or former owner of the premises to pay a sum payable by him in connection with the supply; or

(b)     is in the opinion of the council likely to be cut off in consequence of such a failure,

the council may, at the request in writing of the occupier of the premises, make such arrangements as it thinks fit with the [person] who provided the supply for it to be restored to the premises or, as the case may be, for it to be continued to the premises.

(2)     Where under arrangements made in pursuance of the preceding subsection in respect of any premises a council makes a payment in respect of a sum which, at the time when the relevant supply to

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