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Act No. 12 of 2007.
Gazetted and into force Friday 14th December 2007
ACT
To amend the Electricity Act [Chapter 13:19] (No. 4 of 2002) and to provide for
matters connected with or incidental to the foregoing.
ENACTED by the President and the Parliament of Zimbabwe.
1
Short title
This Act may be cited as the Electricity Amendment Act, 2007.
2
New section inserted after section 60 of Cap. 13:19
The Electricity Act [Chapter 13:19] (No. 4 of 2002) ((hereinafter called "the principal Act")
is amended by the insertion after section 60 of the following section—
"60A
Offences in relation to electric current and apparatus
(1) Any person who, without lawful excuse, the proof whereof shall lie on him or her—
(a) abstracts or diverts any electric current or causes any electric current to be abstracted
or diverted; or
(b) uses any electric current, knowing it to have been unlawfully abstracted or diverted;
shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level fourteen or imprisonment
for a period not exceeding five years or to both such fine and such imprisonment.
(2) Any person who. without lawful excuse, the proof whereof shall lie on him or her,
extinguishes, damages or destroys any electric lamp or other electric apparatus provided for the
convenience or safety of the public, shall be guilty of an offence and, if there are no special
circumstances peculiar to the case as provided for in subsection (4), be liable to imprisonment
for a period of not less than one year.
(3) Any person who, without lawful excuse, the proof whereof shall lie on him or her—
(a) tampers with any apparatus for generating, transmitting, distributing or supplying
electricity with the result that any supply of electricity is interrupted or cut off; or
(b) cuts, damages, destroys or interferes with any apparatus for generating, transmitting,
distributing or supplying electricity;