Regulation 4 Authorised manufacturer
Any person who manufactures meters and satisfies the Director that–
he owns or has available to him apparatus for the examination, testing and regulation of meters which complies with directions;
in respect of each manufacturing unit which he specifies in writing to the Director, he operates a quality assurance system in respect of any meter manufactured by him at that unit which conforms to the standard contained in British Standard BS 5750 Part I 1987; and
he would be capable of complying with the conditions set out in paragraph (2),
may be authorised as a manufacturer by the Director for the purpose of these Regulations in respect of any one or more manufacturing units described in his authorisation for a period not exceeding three years but so that any authorisation may be renewed from time to time.
An authorisation granted by the Director to a person who satisfies the provisions of paragraph (1) shall be subject to the following conditions–
that the authorisation will only apply in respect of meters which have been manufactured at a manufacturing unit described in his authorisation and have been examined, tested and regulated using the apparatus referred to in sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (1);
that the authorised person will operate at all times at each manufacturing unit described in his authorisation a quality assurance system which conforms to the standard referred to in sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph (1) and will maintain a record in permanent form of the system which he operates and of the actions taken to comply with that system in respect of the meter or meters which he intends to submit for certification in accordance with regulation 7;
that the authorised person shall secure that each meter referred to in sub-paragraph (b) of this paragraph shall be examined and tested in accordance with the provisions of Schedule 1;
that the authorised person shall cause every meter in respect of which a certificate has been issued under regulation 8 or 9 to be so stored while it remains under his control and so packaged for delivery when it is to be dispatched from his control as to prevent, so far as reasonably practicable, damage which would cause it to operate in a manner which would not conform with the permitted margins of error; and
that the authorised person will permit the Director or any person duly authorised by him to have access to any manufacturing unit described in his authorisation and to examine and test all apparatus and to inspect all records referred to in this paragraph at all reasonable times for the purpose of ensuring that the authorised person is complying with the conditions of his authorisation.
An authorisation under this regulation may be terminated at any time by the Director upon giving not less than 28 days notice to the authorised person if–
he is breach of any condition of his authorisation or of his duty to comply with directions and (in the case of a breach which is capable of being remedied) has failed to remedy that breach as soon as reasonably practicable after notice has been given to him by the Director specifying the breach; or
he has failed to pay any fee payable by him in accordance with regulation 11.
For the purpose of this regulation–
a person shall be treated as a manufacturer of a meter if he has caused the meter to be assembled so as to comply with the conditions of his authorisation but has not himself manufactured every component part of the meter;
“assembled” includes the carrying out of repairs or modifications to a meter within a period of twelve months after the date upon which a certificate in respect of that meter was first issued under regulation 8 or 9; and
“manufacturing unit” means one or more premises at which meters are assembled but excluding any premises or that part of any premises which are used for the cleaning and repair of meters which have previously been used for measuring the quantity of electricity supplied.