{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-meters-regulations-1988/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-meters-regulations-1988/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1048",
  "legislation_title": "The Water (Meters) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-meters-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Expenses of testing",
  "text": "Where a test is carried out in accordance with Regulation 6 at the request of the customer, and the meter on being tested falls within the prescribed limits of error, the undertaker may recover from the customer the expenses reasonably incurred by them in carrying out the test, not exceeding:—\n(a) where the test is carried out by removing the meter from the premises, £70;\n(b) in any other case, £20.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "replaced",
      "affecting": "uksi/1988/1288",
      "affecting_title": "The Water (Meters) (Amendment) Regulations 1988"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/2035",
      "affecting_title": "The Water Act 2003 (Consequential and Supplementary Provisions) Regulations 2005"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1048/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:05:10.691005+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."
}