{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-metrication-regulations-1992/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-metrication-regulations-1992/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/450",
  "legislation_title": "The Gas (Metrication) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-metrication-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Gas (Declaration of Calorific Value) Regulations 1972",
  "text": "(1) In this regulation any reference to a regulation followed by a number is a reference to the regulation bearing that number in the Gas (Declaration of Calorific Value) Regulations 1972.\n(2) Regulation 2 (which relates to the calculation of charges for therms supplied by a public gas supplier) shall be re-numbered as regulation 2(1).\n(3) After the re-numbered regulation 2(1), the following shall be inserted as regulation 2(2)—\n“(2) This regulation shall have effect until the expiry of 31st December 1999.”\n(4) After regulation 2, the following shall be inserted as regulation 2A—\n“Calculation of charges for kilowatt hours supplied\n2A Where a public gas supplier charges for gas supplied by it according to the number of kilowatt hours supplied, the number of kilowatt hours supplied to any consumer shall be ascertained by multiplying the number of cubic metres of gas supplied to the consumer by the number of megajoules in the declared calorific value of the gas and dividing by 3.6.”\n(5) In regulation 3 (which makes provision for charging for gas supplied on the basis of a declared calorific value of the gas)—\n(a) until the expiry of 31st December 1999, paragraph (1) shall have effect as if the words “or kilowatt hours” were inserted after the word “therms”; and\n(b) with effect from 1st January 2000, in paragraph (1), for the word “therms” there shall be substituted the words “kilowatt hours”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1972/1878; relevant amending instruments are S.I.1974/847 and S.I. 1980/1851."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/450/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:28:00.309469+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."
}