Gas and Electricity Meters
 

Do these meters need, by Regulations, to be accessible from the
outside? A gas shut off needs to be outside but I see no technical
reason for the meters to be acessible from the outside. Can anyone
give guidance?

Gas and Electricity Meters
 

Many are not accessible from outside.

Maybe when installing new ones they insist that they are, but there
seems to be no requirement to make existing ones accessible. Gas
companies have a statutary right of entry (i.e. you can't keep them out
if they think there may be something up with the gas in your house -
and I dare say they can force entry legally in such cases) and
electricity companies may even have the same rights.

Gas and Electricity Meters
 

"Matt Beard" wrote in message
oups.com...
Many are not accessible from outside.

Maybe when installing new ones they insist that they are, but there
seems to be no requirement to make existing ones accessible. Gas
companies have a statutary right of entry (i.e. you can't keep them out
if they think there may be something up with the gas in your house -
and I dare say they can force entry legally in such cases) and
electricity companies may even have the same rights.

Gas companies do not have a statutory right of entry. If the owner does not
allow them in they have to cut the gas off outside. If the place is in
danger of explosion, then the police will have to force entry.

Gas and Electricity Meters
 

Gas companies do not have a statutory right of entry.

Are you sure? I recall an item on the news programme "Nationwide"
years ago that listed the people that were allowed to force thier way
in. I thought that one of the oddities that they discovered was that
the gas board could force thier way in to prevent a fire happenning,
but the fire brigade had no right to force thier way in to put a fire
out. I suppose it may have been the other way around (my memory is not
100%).

Does anyone have an authoratative answer to this?

Gas and Electricity Meters
 

"Matt Beard" wrote in message
ups.com...
Gas companies do not have a statutory right of entry.

Are you sure? I recall an item on the news programme "Nationwide"
years ago that listed the people that were allowed to force thier way
in. I thought that one of the oddities that they discovered was that
the gas board could force thier way in to prevent a fire happenning,
but the fire brigade had no right to force thier way in to put a fire
out. I suppose it may have been the other way around (my memory is not
100%).

Does anyone have an authoratative answer to this?



Google search revealed the following.
http://www.yourrights.org.uk/your-ri...y_boards.shtml

Gas and Electricity Meters
 

Google search revealed the following.
http://www.yourrights.org.uk/your-ri...ight-to-privac...

I thought so.

So basically:

"An official of a gas or electricity company may enter your home if:

....

· There is an emergency and the official has reason to believe that
there is danger to life or property.

....

It is a criminal offence to obstruct a person who has a warrant or who
asks to be admitted in an emergency; the maximum penalty is a fine of
level 3 - currently £1,000. It is not an offence to refuse to let the
official enter if there is no emergency and the official does not have
a warrant - Rights of Entry (Gas and Electricity Boards) Act 1954;
Electricity Act 1989 and Gas Act 1995 ."

Sounds like a statutary right of entry to me.

Gas and Electricity Meters
 

On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 10:13:49 +0100, "Doctor Drivel"
wrote:


"Matt Beard" wrote in message
roups.com...
Many are not accessible from outside.

Maybe when installing new ones they insist that they are, but there
seems to be no requirement to make existing ones accessible. Gas
companies have a statutary right of entry (i.e. you can't keep them out
if they think there may be something up with the gas in your house -
and I dare say they can force entry legally in such cases) and
electricity companies may even have the same rights.

Gas companies do not have a statutory right of entry. If the owner does not
allow them in they have to cut the gas off outside. If the place is in
danger of explosion, then the police will have to force entry.


I beg to differ, I am and I have....



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