Gas Act 1986

6 (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—

(a) 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

(b) in a separate 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.