{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/meters-certification-regulations-northern-ireland-1998/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/meters-certification-regulations-northern-ireland-1998/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1998/444",
  "legislation_title": "Meters (Certification) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/meters-certification-regulations-northern-ireland-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 6(2)(a) of Schedule 7 to the Order 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 the certification period 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 2.5 per centum plus or 3.5 per centum minus 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 Order.\n(4) Each certificate issued under paragraph (3) shall be numbered in the sequence in which it is issued.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 7 in operation at 1.2.1999, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1998/444/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:21:52.995521+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."
}