4.—(1) Where there is a dispute between any person to whom gas is supplied and the person supplying the gas as to the accuracy with which a meter stamped under section 30 of the Act registered the quantity of gas supplied to that person and either party to the dispute requires a meter examiner [F1in the civil service of the Crown] appointed under that section to re-examine the meter, and the names and addresses of both parties to the dispute are communicated in writing to the meter examiner, it shall be the duty of the meter examiner [F2on payment of the requisite fee] to re-examine the meter.
(2) If a meter examiner, on re-examining the meter, is satisfied that the meter does not conform with the standards prescribed by Regulation 3 above, it shall be the duty of the meter examiner to cancel the stamp with which the meter is already stamped by defacing it.
(3) If a meter examiner on re-examining a meter is satisfied that the meter does not conform F3... with the standard prescribed by paragraph (1)(b)(i) or a standard prescribed by paragraph (1)(c) [F4or (cc)] of Regulation 3 above, it shall be the duty of the meter examiner to give to each of the parties to the dispute a certificate signed by the meter examiner stating the degree exceeding the degree permissible for that standard to which the meter when re-examined registered erroneously.
(4) If a meter examiner on re-examining a meter is satisfied that the meter conforms F3... with the standard prescribed by paragraph (1)(b)(i) or the standards prescribed by paragraph (1)(c) [F4or (cc)] of Regulation 3 above, it shall be the duty of the meter examiner to give to each of the parties to the dispute a certificate signed by the meter examiner stating that the meter when re-examined registered accurately
(5) If a meter examiner on re-examining a meter is satisfied that the meter is so defective that he cannot examine it for conformity with the standard prescribed by paragraph (1)(b)(i) or the standards prescribed by paragraph (1)(c) [F4or (cc)] of Regulation 3 above, it shall be the duty of the meter examiner to give to each of the parties to the dispute a certificate signed by the meter examiner stating that the meter when re-examined could not be so examined and to cancel the stamp with which the meter is already stamped by defacing it.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in reg. 4(1) inserted (6.6.1995) by The Gas (Meters) (Amendment) Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/1251), regs. 1, 3(a)
F2Words in reg. 4(1) substituted (6.6.1995) by The Gas (Meters) (Amendment) Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/1251), regs. 1, 3(b)
F3Word in reg. 4(3)(4) omitted (12.7.1993) by virtue of The Gas (Meters) (Amendment) Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/1521), regs. 1, 7(a)
F4Words in reg. 4(3)-(5) inserted (12.7.1993) by The Gas (Meters) (Amendment) Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/1521), regs. 1, 7(b)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Reg. 4 modified (28.12.2016) by The Measuring Instruments Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/1153), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 4(6) (with regs. 3(4), 5, 67(5))
Commencement Information
I1Reg. 4 in force at 1.6.1983, see reg. 1