SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 5 Public Gas Supply Code

Part I Supply of Gas to Tariff Customers

Installation of meters in new premises

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1

This paragraph applies where a meter is to be used to register the quantity of gas supplied to a tariff customer and—

a

the building has not previously been supplied with gas by the public gas supplier; or

b

a new or substituted pipe is to be laid between the public gas supplier’s main and the meter.

2

Subject to sub-paragraph (3) below, the meter shall be installed as near as practicable to the main, but within the outside wall of the building.

3

The meter may be installed otherwise than within the outside wall of the building if it is installed either—

C1a

in accommodation of a type and construction approved by the public gas supplier by an approval given in relation to buildings generally, or to any class or description of buildings; or

C1b

in a seperate meter house or other accommodation outside the building approved by the supplier in the case of that particular building.

4

If the requirements of this paragraph are not complied with, the public gas supplier may refuse to supply gas to the premises until those requirements have been complied with.