(1) The Company may require any consumer to deposit with the Company by way of security for sums due by such consumer to the Company for electricity supplied such sums of money as may be fixed by the Company.
(2) Any sums of money fixed under subsection (1) may not exceed the charge for an estimated 2 months supply of electricity and shall be placed to the credit of a deposit account in the consumer's name in the books of the Company and the deposit shall bear interest at a rate determined by agreement between the Company and the Government; but such rate must not be less than the rate under section 45(4).
(3) The Company may not require any monies to be paid in the form of a contribution or by way of a bond or security by an intended domestic consumer towards the cost of construction and erection of service lines to any property where such service lines do not exceed 100 feet in length from the nearest point of connection.
(4) The Company may require a consumer or intended consumer to pay a contribution determined by the Company in accordance with this section towards the cost of the erection and construction of service lines in excess of 100 feet in length from the nearest point of connection to his or her property excluding distance traversed across any road.
(5) Despite any payments made in accordance with subsection (4) and anything contained in this Act whereby a consumer lawfully erects and constructs transmission and supply lines on his or her property and pays a contribution in accordance with this section for the erection and construction thereof, such transmission and supply lines shall be the property of the Company which shall be responsible for their proper maintenance, repair and safe condition.
(6) Where a consumer, hereinafter referred to as the first consumer, requests transmission and supply lines to be erected and constructed, whether or not on his or her own property, and makes a contribution in accordance with this section towards the erection or construction thereof, such lines may be used by the Company for the purpose of supplying other consumers or intended consumers; but such use must not prejudicially affect the supply of electricity to the first consumer.
(7) Every such other consumer or intended consumer so connected must pay to the Company on demand, such sum as may be determined by the Company to be a fair and just proportion of the contribution paid by the first consumer, and the Company must promptly pay to the first consumer such part thereof as may be determined by the Company to be a fair and just proportion of his or her contribution.