(1)No person shall fraudulently, -(a)Alter the index to any metre or prevent any metre from duly registering the quantity of the water supplied; and(b)Abstract or use water before it has been registered by a metre set up for the purpose of measuring the same.(2)The existence of artificial means under the control of the consumer for causing any such alteration, prevention, obstruction or use shall be an evidence that the consumer has fraudulently affected the same.
