71(1)Where any person supplied with a service provided by a public utility neglects or refuses to pay the amount due for the same, or for the rent of the meter or other articles, the public utility may discontinue service and stop the supply.

71(2)In such cases the employees of the public utility may, after 24 hours’ notice, enter the premises of such person between the hours of nine o’clock in the forenoon and four o’clock in the afternoon, and separate and take away such meter, appliances or other property belonging to the public utility, and disconnect any pipes, wires or fittings or other works, whether its property or not, from the main pipes or wires of the public utility.