{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/meters-certification-regulations-northern-ireland-1998/schedule-1/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/meters-certification-regulations-northern-ireland-1998/schedule-1/paragraph-3.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": "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 the 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 meters or by monitoring the rotation of a disc or pulse output of a meter.\n(3) For any test load, the load applied to a working standard integrating meter shall not be less that 25% or more than 125% of its full load rating.\n(4) For a working standard wattmeter, the applied load shall not be less than 40% or more than 100% of its full scale or range reading.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 3 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/schedule/1/paragraph/3",
    "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."
}