The Water (Meters) (Amendment) Regulations 1988

Statutory Instruments

1988 No. 1288

WATER, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Water (Meters) (Amendment) Regulations 1988

Made

25th July 1988

Laid before Parliament

29th July 1988

Coming into force

1st October 1988

The Secretary of State, in exercise of his powers under section 5(2) to (4) of the Public Utility Transfers and Water Charges Act 1988(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Water (Meters) (Amendment) Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 1st October 1988.

2.  For regulation 7 of the Water (Meters) Regulations 1988(2) (expenses of testing) there shall be substituted—

“7.— (1) Subject to paragraph (2), 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 undertakers may recover from the customer the expenses reasonably incurred by them in carrying out the test.

(2) In the case of a meter which is connected to a supply of water to a house, the expenses recoverable under this Regulation shall not exceed:—

(a) where the test is carried out by removing the meter from premises, £70;

(b) in any other case, £20.”.

Nicholas Ridley

Secretary of State for the Environment

25th July 1988

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations replace regulation 7 of the Water (Meters) Regulations 1988, which provides for water undertakers to recover in certain cases the expenses reasonably incurred in testing water meters installed on or after 11th July 1988, subject to certain monetary limits. The new regulation restricts those limits to the testing of domestic meters.

(1)

1988 c. 15.

(2)

S.I. 1988/1048.