{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/measuring-equipment-cold-water-meters-regulations-1988/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/997",
  "legislation_title": "The Measuring Equipment (Cold-water Meters) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/measuring-equipment-cold-water-meters-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Purpose of use",
  "text": "No person shall use for trade a cold-water meter to which these Regulations apply unless it is an appropriate meter for the installation in question having regard to the criteria in clause 2 of the British Standard Specification for the measurement of flow of cold potable water in closed conduits BS 5728: Part 2: 1980.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in force at 1.8.1988, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "ISBN 0 580 11253 5, published by the British Standards Institution on 30th April 1980, as amended in July 1986."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/997/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:05:36.134843+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."
}