{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/meters-certification-regulations-1998/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/meters-certification-regulations-1998/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1566",
  "legislation_title": "The Meters (Certification) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/meters-certification-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Procedure for certification",
  "text": "(1) Subject to regulation 9, a meter which is submitted to a meter examiner or an authorised examiner shall not be certified by him unless, in addition to being satisfied as required by paragraph 5(2)(a) of Schedule 7 to the Act that the meter is of an approved pattern or construction, he is satisfied—\n(a) either that the meter has been tested in accordance with the provisions of Schedule 3, conforms to the standards described in that Schedule and can reasonably be expected to operate within the permitted margins of error for not less than 10 years beginning on the date on which the meter is first certified for the purpose of the Act, or that it has been tested in accordance with and conforms to one of the equivalent European provisions; and\n(b) that it has been sealed in accordance with directions.\n(2) The permitted margins of error shall be an error not exceeding plus 2.5 per cent. or minus 3.5 per cent. at any load at which the meter is designed to operate.\n(3) Where the examiner is satisfied that a meter complies with paragraph (1), he shall issue a certificate of compliance specifying the serial number of the meter, and thereupon that meter shall be a meter certified for the purpose of the Act.\n(4) Each certificate under paragraph (3) shall be numbered in the sequence in which it is issued.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7(1)(a) substituted (23.3.2026) by The Meters (Certification) (Amendment) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/162), regs. 1(2), 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 7 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/7",
    "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."
}