{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/measuring-equipment-cold-water-meters-regulations-1988/regulation-7A",
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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/7A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7A",
  "heading": "Cold-water meters imported from a member State or an EEA State",
  "text": "(1) In relation to a cold-water meter imported into Great Britain from a 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.\n(2) In this regulation and in regulation 8(1A) below—\n(a) “requisite documentation” means—\n(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\n(ii) the test results relating to those tests; and\n(b) “EEA State” means a State which is a Contracting Party to the EEA Agreement ...; 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.\n(3) A body is an “approved body” for the purposes of this regulation if it is a body in a member State or in an EEA State which has responsibility in that State for metrological control of cold-water meters or is a laboratory which has been accredited for the purposes of testing cold-water meters in a member State or in an EEA State as being a body which conforms with the criteria set out in BS EN ISO/IEC 17025: 2000.\n(4) Nothing in these Regulations shall prevent an inspector testing in accordance with the foregoing provisions of these Regulations where he is not satisfied—\n(a) as to the authenticity of the test report or the results presented to him; or\n(b) that the test results presented to him are results which in fact relate to the cold-water meter being imported; or\n(c) either—\n(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\n(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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 7A inserted (28.9.2001) by The Measuring Equipment (Cold-water Meters) (Amendment) Regulations 2001 (S.I. 2001/1229), regs. 1, 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7A(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Weighing and Measuring Equipment and Meters (Amendment of Secondary Legislation) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1387), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 5(2)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7A(2)(b) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Weighing and Measuring Equipment and Meters (Amendment of Secondary Legislation) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1387), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 5(2)(c); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 7A(3) substituted (28.2.2003) by The Weights and Measures (Standards Amendment)Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/214), reg. 1, Sch. para. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7A heading substituted (31.12.2020) by The Weighing and Measuring Equipment and Meters (Amendment of Secondary Legislation) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1387), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 5(2)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1988 c. 15."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/997/regulation/7A",
    "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."
}