Electricity Act, 1987 (Act No. 41 of 1987)

27. Offences and Penalties
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(1)If any person carries on an undertaking in contravention of any provision of this Act or of the conditions of his license or if any undertaker fails to carry out a directive of the Minister under section 15(2), or any order or decision of the regulator, or fails to comply with any condition imposed by the regulator, he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding the amount which the Minister may from time to time prescribe by regulation for each day on which the undertaking is so carried on or the failure continues.

 

(2)Any person who without legal right (the proof of which shall be upon him) abstracts, branches off or diverts or causes to be abstracted, branched off or diverted any electric current, or consumes or uses any such current which has been wrongfully or unlawfully abstracted, branched off or diverted, knowing it to have been wrongfully or unlawfully abstracted, branched off or diverted, shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to the penalties which may be imposed for theft.

 

(3)Any person who without legal right (the proof of which shall be upon him) cuts off or damages or interferes with any apparatus for generating, transmitting or supplying electricity, shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding the amount which the Minister may from time to time prescribe by regulation or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding 12 months or to both such fine and such imprisonment.