Paragraph 9

Amend regulation 6 as follows.

For paragraph (1), substitute—

“(1)

A person who requires a meter to be certified for the purposes of the Act may submit the meter to an authorised examiner who is authorised to certify a meter of that description, to a nominated laboratory or to a meter examiner.”

After paragraph (1), insert—

“(1A)

A nominated laboratory to which a meter is submitted under paragraph (1) shall direct either—

(a)

a meter examiner; or

(b)

an authorised examiner

who is in the employ of the laboratory to carry out the procedures provided for under regulations 7 and 9; and those regulations and regulation 8 shall apply as if the meter in question had been submitted to the meter examiner or the authorised examiner so directed.”