{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-calculation-of-thermal-energy-amendment-regulations-1997/regulation-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/937",
  "legislation_title": "The Gas (Calculation of Thermal Energy) (Amendment) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-calculation-of-thermal-energy-amendment-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In regulation 3(2) of the Principal Regulations, after the words “regulation 4 below” there shall be inserted the words “or, where paragraph (3) below applies, regulation 4A below”.\n(2) After regulation 3(2) of the Principal Regulations there shall be inserted the following paragraphs—\n“(3) This paragraph applies in respect of the take off points in a charging area or a take off point not situated in a charging area where a public gas transporter has—\n(a) notified the Director and taken reasonable steps to notify relevant licence holders that he is content that this paragraph should apply in respect of the take off points in that charging area or, as the case may be, that take off point;\n(b) provided and maintained, in relation to each—\n(i) input point for the take off points in that charging area or, as the case may be, that take off point; and\n(ii) output point in relation to the take off points in that charging area,\napparatus and equipment for recording, at such locations and with such accuracy as is requisite for the purpose of calculating daily calorific values under regulation 4A below, the volume of gas flowing past the input point or output point, as the case may be, being the volume which that gas would have had if it had been measured at a temperature of 15°C and a pressure of 1013.25 millibars;\n(c) made arrangements for the safe keeping of the records of the volume of that gas made by any such apparatus and equipment at the place or premises at which it is provided;\n(d) continued to allow gas examiners all reasonable facilities for inspecting any such apparatus and equipment and any such records; and\n(e) not notified the Director and not taken reasonable steps to notify relevant licence holders that he is no longer content that this paragraph should apply in respect of the take off points in that charging area or, as the case may be, that take off point, and\nwhere no notification to the transporter of a determination by the Director that a provision of sub-paragraph (b), (c) or (d) above is not being, or is likely not to be, complied with in respect of the take off points in that charging area or, as the case may be, that take off point, has been made or such a notification, having been made, is withdrawn in consequence of a determination by the Director to the contrary effect.\n(4) In this regulation and regulations 4 and 4A below, any reference to a take off point shall be construed as a reference to a take off point to which neither regulation 2(4) above nor Part III of these Regulations applies.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/937/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:11:23.516224+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}