{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/measuring-equipment-cold-water-meters-regulations-1988/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/measuring-equipment-cold-water-meters-regulations-1988/regulation-8.json",
  "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/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Passing as fit for use for trade",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (1A) below no cold-water meter to which these Regulations apply shall be passed as fit for use for trade unless—\n(a) on testing\n(i) it complies with all the appropriate requirements of these Regulations; and\n(ii) it falls within the prescribed limits of error: Provided that, where the errors on all the quantities indicated by the meter during the tests are all errors in excess or all errors in deficiency then, notwithstanding that they are all within the prescribed limits of error, not all the errors shall exceed one-half of the prescribed limits of error;\n(b) where it has not been tested, it forms part of a group of meters treated under regulation 7(4) above as having satisfied the test.\n(1A) A cold-water meter imported from a member State or an EEA State shall not be passed as fit for use for trade unless—\n(a) where the requisite documentation is presented in accordance with regulation 7A above, the test report recites and the test data confirm to the satisfaction of the inspector that on testing in the relevant State it fell within the prescribed limits of error; and\n(b) it complies with all the relevant requirements of these Regulations.\n(2) Nothing in section 11(2) of the Act shall prohibit a meter, which has been passed as fit for use for trade and which bears the manufacturer’s mark undefaced otherwise than by reason of fair wear and tear, from being used for trade, notwithstanding that it does not bear the stamp.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8(1) inserted (28.9.2001) by The Measuring Equipment (Cold-water Meters) (Amendment) Regulations 2001 (S.I. 2001/1229), regs. 1, 7(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 8(1A) inserted (28.9.2001) by The Measuring Equipment (Cold-water Meters) (Amendment) Regulations 2001 (S.I. 2001/1229), regs. 1, 7(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8(1A) 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(3); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 8 heading inserted (28.9.2001) by The Measuring Equipment (Cold-water Meters) (Amendment) Regulations 2001 (S.I. 2001/1229), regs. 1, 7(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 8 in force at 1.8.1988, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/997/regulation/8",
    "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."
}