{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/meters-certification-amendment-regulations-2026/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/meters-certification-amendment-regulations-2026/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2026/162",
  "legislation_title": "The Meters (Certification) (Amendment) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/meters-certification-amendment-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Insertion of regulation 10A",
  "text": "After regulation 10, insert—\n“Extensions to the duration of certification\n10A (1) A meter examiner must extend the duration of certification of a type of meter by 5 years if the following conditions are met—\n(a) the meter is of a type described in columns 1 to 6 of the Table in Schedule 4A;\n(b) an authorised supplier (“the applicant”) has—\n(i) applied to the meter examiner to extend the duration of certification of that type of meter; and\n(ii) submitted meters of that type to a nominated laboratory for examination and testing;\n(c) the meter examiner is satisfied that—\n(i) the type of meter is suitable for examination and testing to determine whether the duration of its certification can be extended;\n(ii) each meter submitted for examination and testing is of an approved pattern or construction;\n(iii) the number of meters examined and tested by a nominated laboratory is sufficient to provide a reasonable test of all meters of that type; and\n(iv) the examination and testing by a nominated laboratory shows meters of that type can reasonably be expected to operate within the permitted margins of error for a further 5 years, beginning in respect of each meter of that type on the day that the meter would otherwise cease to be certified under regulation 10(4A).\n(2) If the conditions in sub-paragraphs (1)(a) to (c) are met, the meter examiner must notify the applicant in writing that the duration of certification of meters for that type has been extended by 5 years.\n(3) A 5 year extension to the duration of certification under this regulation begins, in respect of each meter of that type, on the day that the meter would otherwise cease to be certified under regulation 10(4A).\n(4) A type of meter may have the duration of its certification extended under this regulation more than once.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 64(1) of the Electricity Act 1989 (c. 29) for the definition of “authorised supplier”."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/162/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:05:48.090674+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."
}