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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/heat-network-metering-and-billing-regulations-2014/schedule-1/paragraph-7",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2014/3120",
  "legislation_title": "The Heat Network (Metering and Billing) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/heat-network-metering-and-billing-regulations-2014",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The matters to be taken into account in estimating the costs of installation of heat cost allocators and thermostatic radiator valves are the capital, installation, operation and maintenance costs of the heat cost allocators and thermostatic radiator valves taking into account—\n(a) any cost of access to private dwelling or non-domestic premises including legal costs;\n(b) the cost of equipment and software to collect data from the heat cost allocators to be used for billing;\n(c) the cost of re-calibrating the heat cost allocators periodically to ensure accuracy of performance; ...\n(d) the cost of issuing bills and billing information;\n(e) the matters mentioned in paragraph 2(a) to (d); and\n(f) whether the costs could be reduced if another building supplied from the same district heat network is also to have heat cost allocators and thermostatic radiator valves installed in accordance with regulation 6(2).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 omitted (E.W.S.) (27.1.2026) by virtue of The Heat Networks (Market Framework) (Great Britain) (Amendment) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/7), regs. 2(2)(c), 12(12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 1 para. 7(c) omitted (27.11.2020) by virtue of The Heat Network (Metering and Billing) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1221), regs. 1(2), 14(9)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 7(e)(f) inserted (27.11.2020) by The Heat Network (Metering and Billing) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1221), regs. 1(2), 14(9)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/3120/schedule/1/paragraph/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:55:34.637072+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."
}