The Water (Meters) Regulations 1988

PART I CITATION, COMMENCEMENT AND INTERPRETATION

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

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

(3) 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(1);

“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(2);

“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(3) or section 2 of the Act.

(1)

S.I. 1988/997.

(2)

1945 c. 42.

(3)

1973 c. 37; subsections (1)—(1B) of section 30 were substituted, and subsection (11) was added, by the Water Charges Act 1976 (c. 9), section 2; and subsections (3)—(10) were repealed by Schedule 3 to the Act.