{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/meters-certification-regulations-1990/schedule-3/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/meters-certification-regulations-1990/schedule-3/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/792",
  "legislation_title": "The Meters (Certification) Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/meters-certification-regulations-1990",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Pre-heating",
  "text": "(1) The following tests shall not be carried out until the voltage circuits of meters under test and the voltage circuit of working standard integrating meters have been energised for a period of one hour or half an hour if a current of not less than 2 Ampere is applied to the current circuit of the meters, save that non-registration may be carried out during the pre-heating period.\n(2) Sub-paragraph (1) shall not apply to a meter which the examiner is satisfied is capable of full operation as soon as it is energised.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/792/schedule/3/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:22:08.525435+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."
}