{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/meters-certification-regulations-1998/schedule-3/paragraph-1n1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/meters-certification-regulations-1998/schedule-3/paragraph-1n1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1566",
  "legislation_title": "The Meters (Certification) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/meters-certification-regulations-1998",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/1n1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Pre-heating",
  "text": "(1) The following tests shall not be carried out until the voltage circuits of meters under test and the voltage circuits of the working standard integrating meters have been energised for a period of one hour or half an hour if a current of not less than either 10 per cent. of basic current or 5 per cent. of marked current is applied to the current circuits of the meters, provided that the non-registration test may be carried out during the pre-heating period.\n(2) Sub-paragraph (1) shall not apply to a meter which the examiner is satisfied is capable of full operation as soon as it is energised.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 1 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/3/paragraph/1n1",
    "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."
}