{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/meters-certification-regulations-1998/schedule-2/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/meters-certification-regulations-1998/schedule-2/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1566",
  "legislation_title": "The Meters (Certification) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/meters-certification-regulations-1998",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Where a transformer intended for use with a meter has been tested, a statement—\n(1) that the transformer referred to in the report is accurately described and as to whether it is a new or used transformer;\n(2) that the transformer has been examined and tested in accordance with Schedule 1 or, in the case of a current transformer, with Harmonisation Document 553 S2 approved by the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization on 9th March 1993, or, in the case of a voltage transformer, with Harmonisation Document 554 S1 approved by that Committee on 24th March 1992;\n(3) that the uncertainty of measurement was not greater than plus or minus 0.1 per cent; and\n(4) that no transformer error was greater than plus or minus 0.5 per cent. at any load from 5 per cent. to 120 per cent. of full load when connected to the maximum rated burden or, if known, the working burden.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 5 in force at 1.8.1998, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Harmonisation Document 553 S2 is entitled “Current Transformers” and is published by the British Standards Institution."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Harmonisation Document 554 S1 is entitled “Voltage Transformers” and is published by the British Standards Institution."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1566/schedule/2/paragraph/5",
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  },
  "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."
}