{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/meters-certification-regulations-1998/schedule-1/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/meters-certification-regulations-1998/schedule-1/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1566",
  "legislation_title": "The Meters (Certification) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/meters-certification-regulations-1998",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Accuracy tests",
  "text": "(1) Apparatus used for determining the errors of repaired meters during these tests shall comply with directions.\n(2) The rate of advance of a meter over a test period shall be obtained by reading the electro-mechanical register or electronic display on or connected to the meter or by monitoring the rotation of the disc or pulse output of the meter.\n(3) For any test load, the load applied to a working standard integrating meter shall not be less than 25 per cent. or more than 125 per cent. of its full load rating.\n(4) For a working standard wattmeter, the applied load shall not be less than 40 per cent. or more than 100 per cent. of its full scale or range reading.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 3 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/schedule/1/paragraph/3",
    "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."
}