56. A distributor may, in the territory where his exclusive distribution rights obtain, exercise, with respect to natural gas, the powers relating to the sale and rent of apparatus and meters, work in the streets and interruptions of service and the power to enter upon private property set out in sections 63 to 71 and 73 to 76 of the Gas, Water and Electricity Companies Act (chapter C-44), subject to the restrictions, conditions and obligations specified in those sections.
The distributor may exercise the same powers, subject to the same restrictions, conditions and obligations, with respect to the construction of pipe lines for the supply, transmission and delivery of natural gas to his customers in the territory for which exclusive distribution rights have been granted to him, whether the pipe lines are built wholly or partly within or outside that territory.