{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/meters-certification-regulations-1998/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/meters-certification-regulations-1998/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1566",
  "legislation_title": "The Meters (Certification) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/meters-certification-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Equivalent European provisions",
  "text": "(1) Equivalent European provisions are—\n(a) the provisions as to verification in Council Directive 76/891/EEC as amended by Commission Directive No. 82/621/EEC and Protocol 1 and Part IX of Annex II to the EEA Agreement;\n(b) European Standard EN 61036:1996; and\n(c) any standard, technical regulation, manufacturing method or code of practice accepted by ... EEA States conformity with which will ensure a level of precision, security, safety, durability and fitness for purpose equivalent to that assured by conformity to Schedule 3.\n(2) A meter examiner or an authorised examiner to whom a meter has been submitted under regulation 6 shall take into account the results of the tests carried out by the bodies and laboratories of ... EEA States where such bodies and laboratories conform with European Standard EN 45001:1989.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 8(1)(c) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Weighing and Measuring Equipment and Meters (Amendment of Secondary Legislation) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1387), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 9(5); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 8(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Weighing and Measuring Equipment and Meters (Amendment of Secondary Legislation) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1387), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 9(5); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 8 in force at 1.8.1998, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No. L336, 4.12.76, p.30."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ No. L252, 27.8.82, p.1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "EN 61036:1996, which has the status of a British Standard, is a European Standard entitled “Alternating current static watt-hour meters for active energy (classes 1 and 2)” and is published by the British Standards Institution."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "EN 45001:1989, which has the status of a British Standard, is a European Standard entitled “General criteria for the operation of testing laboratories” and is published by the British Standards Institution."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1566/regulation/8",
    "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."
}