The Measuring Instruments (EEC Requirements) (Gas Volume Meters) Regulations 1988

6.  For regulation 13 there shall be substituted the following regulation —

“EEC initial verification

13.— (1) An application for consideration of any instrument of a category to which the Directive on gas volume meters applies for EEC initial verification shall be made to a meter examiner in such manner as the Secretary of State or, as respects an application made in Northern Ireland, the Department of Economic Development may direct.

(2) The meter examiner shall determine whether an EEC pattern approval is in force in respect of the instrument and, if so, whether it conforms to the approved pattern and to the requirements of the Directive on gas volume meters, and where he is satisfied —

(a) that the instrument conforms to the requirements of the Directive on gas volume meters; and

(b) that an EEC pattern approval is in force in respect of the instrument and that the instrument conforms to the approved pattern,

he shall affix or authorise to be affixed to the instrument the United Kingdom mark of EEC initial verification, and shall at the same time apply or authorise the application of any seals required by that Directive to be applied in connection with initial verification.

(3) If the meter examiner refuses to affix or authorise to be affixed any EEC mark he shall give to the applicant a statement in writing of his reasons for refusal.

(4) Schedule 3 to these Regulations shall apply for regulating the conduct in the United Kingdom of EEC initial verification in relation to instruments of a category to which the Directive on gas volume meters applies”.