Section 26: Payments in arrears.

Whenever any consumer of electricity supplied by the Authority leaves the premises where such electricity has been supplied to him without paying the charges for electricity or meter rental due from him, the Authority shall be entitled to recover from the next tenant the arrears left unpaid by the former tenant, unless the incoming tenant has, before consuming electricity, given notice to the Authority requiring the meter to be read or has given notice of the date of commencement of his tenancy where no meter is supplied.