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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/measuring-instruments-regulations-2016/schedule-2/paragraph-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2016/1153",
  "legislation_title": "The Measuring Instruments Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/measuring-instruments-regulations-2016",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "A gas meter for use for trade—\n(a) in respect of which an EEC pattern approval was granted before 30th October 2006—\n(i) under the Measuring Instruments (EEC Requirements) Regulations 1988 , as applied to gas meters by the Measuring Instruments (EEC Requirements) (Gas Volume Meters) Regulations 1988 ; or\n(ii) by any other EEA state in accordance with the relevant provisions of measures in force which implement Council Directive 71/318 ,\nand\n(b) which bears a mark of EEC initial verification affixed before 30th October 2016 under those Regulations (as so applied) or by any other EEA state in accordance with those provisions.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 1988/186"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "S.I. 1988/296, as amended by S.I. 1996/319."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "Directive 71/318 on the approximation of the laws of member States relating to gas meters."
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "This version of this provision extends to England and Wales and Scotland only; a separate version has been created for Northern Ireland only"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/1153/schedule/2/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:17:40.726189+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."
}