ELECTRICITY SUPPLY (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1972

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ELECTRICITY SUPPLY (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1972 - SECT 34



34.(1) The Ministry, with the approval of the Ministry of Finance as to
numbers and salaries, shall appoint competent persons as meter examiners and
may assign to them their functions; and in particular it shall be the duty of
such an examiner, on being required to do so by any person and on payment of
the prescribed fee,

(a)to examine any meter used or intended to be used for ascertaining the
amount of electricity supplied to any person, other than a person under an
agreement to which paragraph 14(3) of Schedule 3 applies;

(b)to certify the meter if, subject to paragraph (4), the examiner is
satisfied

(i)that it is capable of ascertaining the amount of electricity supplied
within such limits of error as may, as respects meters of the class to which
the meter belongs, be prescribed; and

(ii)that it is of such construction and pattern as is approved by the
Ministry;

(c)to examine the manner in which any meter has been fixed and connected with
the service lines;

(d)to certify that the meter has been fixed and connected with the service
lines in such manner as is approved by the Ministry if the examiner is
satisfied that it has been so fixed and connected.

(2) All fees payable in respect of the examination, certification and
re-examination by meter examiners of meters or the manner in which they have
been fixed and connected with service lines shall be paid to the Ministry; and
the Public Offices Fees Act 1879 shall not apply to any such fees.

(3) Regulations may

(a)provide for the re-examination of meters already certified;

(b)provide for cancelling the certification of any meters which no longer
conform to the prescribed standards and in such other circumstances as may be
prescribed;

(c)require meters to be periodically overhauled;

(d)revoke any approval given by the Ministry to any particular construction or
pattern of meter and require existing meters of that construction or pattern
to be replaced within such period as may be prescribed;

(e)require every article used as testing equipment to have its accuracy
periodically determined or re-determined in the prescribed manner and make
provision for such an article to be treated as accurate during such period
after its accuracy as is so determined or re-determined as may be prescribed;

(f)determine the fees to be paid for examining, certifying and re-examining
meters or the manner in which they have been fixed and connected with service
lines, and the persons by whom they are to be paid.

(4) A meter examiner may certify a meter under this Article notwithstanding
that he has not himself examined or tested it, if

(a)the meter is submitted to him for certification by the Service, together
with a report stating that the Service has examined and tested the meter in
accordance with directions given by the Ministry under Article 35(2), and
containing the information required by those directions;

(b)the information contained in the report is such as to indicate, in the
opinion of the meter examiner, that the meter is entitled to be certified;

(c)the meter is one of a number submitted to the meter examiner together at
the same time by the Service; and

(d)the meter examiner, by the use of apparatus provided in accordance with
paragraph (5), has himself examined and tested such number of those meters as
he may consider sufficient to constitute a reasonable test of all the meters
submitted to him by the Service for certification on that occasion.

(5) The Service shall

(a)provide and keep in efficient working order, such suitable apparatus as the
Ministry may prescribe or approve for the examination, testing and regulation
of meters used or intended to be used in connection with the supply of
electricity by the Service;

(b)afford to meter examiners all necessary facilities for the use of the
apparatus for the exercise and performance of their functions in relation to
such meters.

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ELECTRICITY SUPPLY (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1972 - SECT 34