Regulation 1

These Regulations may be cited as the Water (Meters) Regulations 1988.

Parts I, II and V of these Regulations shall come into force on 11th July 1988, and the remainder on 1st October 1988.

In these Regulations—

• “the Act” means the Public Utility Transfers and Water Charges Act 1988;

• “the 1988 Regulations” means the Measuring Equipment (Cold-water Meters) Regulations 1988^f1;

• “the customer” means the person who is liable to pay water charges in respect of any premises in relation to which a meter is fitted;

• “house” and “supply pipe” have the same meaning as in the Third Schedule to the Water Act 1945^f2;

• “meter” means any apparatus for measuring and showing the volume of water supplied to any premises, but does not include outreading apparatus;

• “outreading apparatus” means any apparatus connected to a meter for the purpose of showing or transmitting signals showing the volume measured by that meter and installed on or adjoining premises to which that meter relates;

• “prescribed limits of error” means the prescribed limits of error in relation to the obliteration of the stamp or mark set out in the Schedule to the 1988 Regulations;

• “stop-tap” means a tap fitted on a supply pipe inside a building to permit the flow of water in that pipe to be stopped;

• “undertakers” means water undertakers; and

• “water charges” means any charges which undertakers may fix under section 30 of the Water Act 1973^f3 or section 2 of the Act.