Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
The Measuring Instruments (EEC Requirements) (Gas Volume Meters) Regulations 1983 applied the Measuring Instruments (EEC Requirements) Regulations 1980 (S.I. 1980/1058) subject to modifications to certain gas volume meters to which Council Directive No. 71/318/EEC, as amended, applied, and implemented the obligations of the United Kingdom under that Directive and under Council Directive No. 71/316/EEC, as amended.
The Measuring Instruments (EEC Requirements) Regulations 1980 are revoked by the Measuring Instruments (EEC Requirements) Regulations 1988, which are to come into force on 14th March 1988.
These Regulations therefore revoke the Measuring Instruments (EEC Requirements) (Gas Volume Meters) Regulations 1983 and apply, subject to similar modifications, the Measuring Instruments (EEC Requirements) Regulations 1988 to those gas volume meters to which the 1983 Regulations applied.
The principal modifications to the Measuring Instruments (EEC Requirements) Regulations 1988 are as follows:
The substitution for regulation 6 of a regulation providing that the prohibition on the use of meters not stamped under section 17 of the Gas Act 1986 or, as regards Northern Ireland, under Article 9 of the Gas (Northern Ireland) Order 1977 is not to restrict the use of meters bearing the mark of EEC initial verification;
The disapplication of the requirements in regulations 8(4) and 11(3) respectively for publication of EEC pattern approvals and revocations of such approvals;
The substitution for regulation 13 of a regulation providing for EEC initial verification of gas volume meters by meter examiners;
The disapplication of the provisions in regulation 14 for the testing or examination of meter measuring systems;
The substitution for Part IV of supplementary provisions in respect of gas volume meters relating to —
the effect of revocation of EEC pattern approval (regulation 15),
instruments of a defective pattern (regulation 16),
the unauthorised application of EEC signs and marks (regulation 17),
offences by corporations and the prosecution and punishment of offences (regulations 18 to 20).