Section 76
of Lembaga Letrik Sabah Act 1983
Section 76
Any person who wilfully, or fraudulently injures or permits to be injured any works of the Board, or alters the index of any meter for ascertaining the value of the supply, or prevents any such meter from duly registering the value of the supply, or fraudulently abstracts, consumes, or uses the electrical energy of the Board shall be guilty of an offence and shall (without prejudice to any other right or remedy for the protection of the Board) be liable on conviction to a fine of one thousand ringgit and to imprisonment for a term of one year, and the Board may in addition thereto recover the amount of any damage by him sustained.
(2)
The existence of artificial means for causing such alteration or prevention, or for abstracting, consuming or using electricity of the Board when such meter is under custody or control of the consumer, shall be prima facie evidence that such alteration, prevention, abstraction or consumption, as the case may be, has been fraudulently, knowingly and wilfully caused by the consumer using such meter.
(3)
And in any case in which any person has wilfully or fraudulently injured or suffered to be injured any electric lines, meters or fittings belonging to the Board, or altered the index to any meter, or prevented any meter from duly registering the quantity of electricity supplied, the Board may also, until the lines, meters or fittings complained of have been remedied, discontinue the supply of electricity to the person so offending notwithstanding any contract previously existing.