{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/meters-certification-regulations-1998/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/meters-certification-regulations-1998/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1566",
  "legislation_title": "The Meters (Certification) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/meters-certification-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Application for certification",
  "text": "(1) A person who requires a meter to be certified for the purposes of the Act may submit the meter to an authorised examiner who is authorised to certify a meter of that description, to a nominated laboratory or to a meter examiner.\n(1A) A nominated laboratory to which a meter is submitted under paragraph (1) shall direct either—\n(a) a meter examiner; or\n(b) an authorised examiner\nwho is in the employ of the laboratory to carry out the procedures provided for under regulations 7 and 9; and those regulations and regulation 8 shall apply as if the meter in question had been submitted to the meter examiner or the authorised examiner so directed.\n(2) Each meter which is submitted for certification in accordance with regulation 9 shall be accompanied by a report verified and signed by the person in charge of manufacture or repair, as the case may be, or by a person nominated by him.\n(3) A report for the purpose of paragraph (2) shall contain the statements and information specified in Schedule 2 including, where that meter is designed to operate with a transformer, the statements and information relating to the transformer.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 6(1) substituted (1.2.2003) by The Electricity (Approval of Pattern or Construction and Installation and Certification) (Amendment) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/3129), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 9(2) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 6(1A) inserted (1.2.2003) by The Electricity (Approval of Pattern or Construction and Installation and Certification) (Amendment) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/3129), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 9(3) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 6 in force at 1.8.1998, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1566/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:26:36.743610+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."
}