Assignment without Permission
    No consumer shall assign the agreement or transfer or part with the benefits under the agreement in favour of any other person without the express consent or approval of the engineer in respect of Domestic and General Purpose consumers and the designated authority of the licensee in respect of other categories of consumers. In case of death of a consumer who is an individual, his legal heir or successor in interest or legatee may be given recognition as a consumer in place of the deceased.
Any connection which has been unauthorisedly transferred or parted with shall be liable for disconnection of supply after a seven days notice calling for his explanation and considering the explanation submitted, if any, by him. This may be in addition to any other action the licensee is authorised to take under law and this Code
Re-sale, Transfer, Dishonest Abstraction and Theft of Energy
No consumer shall sell or transfer or divert power to any person or premises unless the agreement so provides.
No consumer shall make use of power in excess of the approved contract demand or use power for a purpose other than the one for which agreement has been executed or shall dishonestly abstract power from the licensee’s system.
FORCE MAJEURE AND RESTRICTION ON POWER SUPPLY
The licensee or the consumer shall not be liable for any claim for loss, damage or compensation whatsoever arising out of failure of supply when such failure is due either directly or indirectly to war, mutiny, civil commotion, riot, strike, lockout, fire, flood, tempest, lightning, earthquake or other force, accident or cause beyond his control.
In the event of restriction / regulation (planned load shedding) on power supply ordered by the Commission under Section 23 of the Act, the licensee shall be under no obligation to supply energy contracted for.
The consumer shall curtail or stagger or altogether stop using electricity when so directed by the engineer or the designated authority of licensee if the power supply position or any other emergency in the licensee’s system of supply warrants such a course. (2) The licensee will be entitled for the purpose of maintenance of its supply system to temporarily discontinue supply of power to any area for such period as may be reasonably necessary subject to such advance notice as may be feasible.
At any time during the continuance of the agreement between the licensee and the consumer, the plant or premises of the consumer is destroyed or damaged due to force majeure conditions referred to in Regulations 107 and 108 resulting in break-down or rendering the plant or the premises wholly or substantially unfit for occupation or use, the consumer may on giving seven days notice in writing to the engineer of such break-down or unfitness take a reduced supply of power as may be necessary and feasible. In such a contingency, he shall not be liable to pay the charges in accordance with the agreement, but he shall pay minimum monthly charges, demand charges where such charges are payable on the basis of the maximum demand recorded in the demand meter and energy charges on the basis of actual energy consumed. The aforesaid period of reduced supply shall not count towards the initial period as stated in the agreement and the period of the agreement shall be extended for a further period equal to the period of reduced supply.