Meters (Certification) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998

Fees

11.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), any person who submits under regulation 6 a meter to a meter examiner for certification shall pay to the Director in accordance with paragraph (4), a fee of 34 pence in respect of each meter so submitted.

(2) Where a fee has already been paid to the Director General of Electricity Supply in respect of the submission of a meter for certification under the Electricity Act 1989(1), no fee shall be payable under paragraph (1) in respect of that meter.

(3) Within seven days after the last day of each calendar month in which a person has submitted a meter to a meter examiner under regulation 6, he shall deliver to the Director a statement of the number of meters which he has submitted during the preceding month.

(4) Within thirty days of the delivery of the statement referred to in paragraph (3), he shall pay to the Director a fee calculated in accordance with paragraph (1) in respect of the meters referred to in that statement.

(5) Subject to paragraph (6), any person who nominates an authorised examiner under regulation 5, other than in the circumstances set out in regulation 5(7)(a) and (b), shall pay to the Director a fee of £7,600 in respect of that examiner’s authorisation.

(6) Where the Director is satisfied that the number of meters which will be submitted under regulation 6 to an authorised examiner in the period of 12 months beginning on the date of his authorisation is likely to be less than 1,000, the fee in respect of the authorisation shall be £540.

(7) Paragraphs (5) and (6) shall apply to the renewal of an authorisation under regulation 5 as it applies to an original authorisation granted under that regulation.

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1989 c. 29