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"The expression 'check meter' has no special significance or legal incidence for which there is a bar that check meter cannot be treated as an altered meter if the licensee intends to replace the defective meter by the check meter. It will be open to the Electrical Inspector to ascertain the correctness of the check meter along with the disputed meter when dispute is referred for adjudication by the Electrical Inspector and the licensee found its case with reference to check meter. Prior to the amendment of Section 26(6) of Electricity Act, the Electrical Inspector or the competent person specially appointed by the State Government in this behalf, had a statutory duty to first determine whetehr the meter in question was defective and thereafter to estimate the quantity of the electricity consumed during such time as the meter in the opinion of the Electrical Inspector or the competent person 'shall not have been correct'. After the amendment of sub-section (6) of Section 26, the Electical Inspector is the only statutory authority to decide the dispute about the correctness of the meter, if such dispute is raised by either of the parties. If the Electrical Inspector on a reference comes to the finding that the meter has ceased to be correct, the said Inspector has a statutory duty to estimate the amount of energy supplied to the consumer or electrical energy contained in the supply during such time not exceeding six months as the meter shall not, in the opinion of such Inspector, have been correct.'"