Regulation 6

After regulation 7 of the principal Regulations there shall be inserted the following regulation—

“Cold-water meters imported from another member State or an EEA State

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(1)

In relation to a cold-water meter imported into Great Britain from another member State or from an EEA State, subject to paragraph (4), below, an inspector shall not carry out any test in accordance with the foregoing provisions of these Regulations if, together with the cold-water meter being imported, he is presented with the requisite documentation.

(2)

In this regulation and in regulation 8(1A) below—

(a)

“requisite documentation” means—

(i)

the test report of an approved body that the cold-water meter which is the subject of that report has been tested on the same basis as that set out in these Regulations or on an equivalent basis and stating which tests have been applied to it; and

(ii)

the test results relating to those tests; and

(b)

“EEA State” means a State which is a Contracting Party to the EEA Agreement other than the United Kingdom; and in this paragraph “the EEA Agreement” means the Agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1992 as adjusted by the Protocol signed at Brussels on 17th March 1993.

(3)

A body is an “approved body” for the purposes of paragraph 2 if it is a body in a member State or in an EEA State which has the responsibility in that State for metrological control of cold-water meters or is a laboratory in a member State or in an EEA State which has been accredited in relation to cold-water meters as being a body which conforms with the criteria set out in EN 45001^f1 or BS EN ISO 17025: 2000^f2.

(4)

Nothing in these Regulations shall prevent an inspector testing in accordance with the foregoing provisions of these Regulations where he is not satisfied—

(a)

as to the authenticity of the test report or the results presented to him; or

(b)

that the test results presented to him are results which in fact relate to the cold-water meter being imported; or

(c)

either—

(i)

that the cold-water meter being imported has not been dismantled after the tests to which the test report relates were carried out, or

(ii)

where the cold-water meter being imported has been dismantled after those tests were carried out, that any such dismantling is not likely to have affected its performance.”.