law: Electricity Act, 2003
  163. Power for
  
  licensee to enter premises and to remove fittings or other apparatus of
  
  licensee.-
  
  1.     
  
    A
  
  licensee or any person duly authorised by a licence may, at any reasonable
  
  time, and on informing the occupier of his intention, enter any premises to
  
  which electricity is, or has been, supplied by him, of any premises or land,
  
  under, over, along, across, in or upon which the electric supply-lines or other
  
  works have been lawfully placed by him for the purpose of --
  a.      inspecting, testing,
  
  repairing or altering the electric supply-lines, meters, fittings, works and
  
  apparatus for the supply of electricity belonging to the licensee; or
  b.     ascertaining the
  
  amount of electricity supplied or the electrical quantity contained in the
  
  supply; or
  c.      removing where a
  
  supply of electricity is no longer required, or where the licensee is
  
  authorised to take away and cut off such supply, any electric supplylines,
  
  meters, fittings, works or apparatus belonging to the licensee.
  2.     
  
    A
  
  licensee or any person authorised as aforesaid may also, in pursuance of a
  
  special order in this behalf made by an Executive Magistrate and after giving
  
  not less than twenty-four hours notice in writing to the occupier, --
  a.      enter any premises or
  
  land referred to in sub-section (1) for any of the purposes mentioned therein;
  b.     enter any premises to
  
  which electricity is to be supplied by him, for the purpose of examining and
  
  testing the electric wires fittings, works and apparatus for the use of
  
  electricity belonging to the consumer.
  3.     
  
    Where
  
  a consumer refuses to allow a licensee or any person authorised as aforesaid to
  
  enter his premises or land in pursuance of the provisions of sub-section (1)
  
  or, sub-section (2), when such licensee or person has so entered, refuses to
  
  allow him to perform any act which he is authorised by those sub-sections to
  
  perform, or fails to give reasonable facilities for such entry or performance,
  
  the licensee may, after the expiry of twenty-four hours from the service of a
  
  notice in writing on the consumer, cut off the supply to the consumer for so
  
  long as such refusal or failure continues, but for no longer.