{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/meters-certification-order-1987/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/meters-certification-order-1987/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/730",
  "legislation_title": "The Meters (Certification) Order 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/meters-certification-order-1987",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“single-phase credit meter” means an induction type alternating current single-phase two wire single rate credit meter;\n“specified meter” means a static meter, a prepayment meter, a maximum demand meter or a multi-rate meter, being in each case an alternating current meter;\n“the Schedule of 1899” means the Schedule to the Electric Lighting (Clauses) Act 1899, as incorporated with the Electricity Act 1947 and as amended, adapted and modified.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1899 c. 19."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 50 of the Schedule of 1899 was substituted by the Electric Lighting Act 1909 (c. 34), section 11 and Second Schedule, and, as incorporated with the Electricity Act 1947 (c. 54), section 50 of the Schedule of 1899 was adapted and modified by the Electricity Act 1947 section 57(2) and Fourth Schedule, Part III, and by the Energy Act 1983 (c. 25), Schedule 1."
    }
  ],
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  "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."
}