151Offences relating to transmission pipelines

151 Offences relating to transmission pipelines (1) A person must not— (a) lay or cause to be laid a pipe that connects with a pipe belonging to a gas transmission company without its consent; or (b) wilfully or by culpable negligence injure or allow to be injured any gas fitting belonging to a gas transmission company; or (c) interfere in any way with a meter or prevent a meter from properly registering the quantity of gas conveyed; or (d) fraudulently take gas from a transmission pipeline; or (e) retain or use any property of a gas transmission company except in accordance with an authority of the gas transmission company. (2) In addition to any penalty under subsection (1), a gas transmission company may recover the amount of any damages sustained by the gas transmission company as a result of the wrongful act.