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Statutory Instruments

1988 No. 1206

ELECTRICITY

The Meters (Determination of Questions) (Expenses) Regulations 1988

Made

11th July 1988

Laid before Parliament

12th July 1988

Coming into force

1st August 1988

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 57(5) of the Schedule to the Electric Lighting (Clauses) Act 1899(1) as incorporated with the Electricity Act 1947(2), hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Meters (Determination of Questions) (Expenses) Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 1st August 1988.

Determination of questions

2.-(1) The sums to be paid by the Electricity Boards mentioned in the first column of the Table below to the Secretary of State towards administrative expenses incurred by him in connection with the determination of questions under the said section 57 shall be the amounts specified in the second column of that Table and shall be paid in advance on the first day of each month.

(2) For the purposes of this Regulation a question is determined when a meter examiner signs a certificate that he has determined the question or that he is unable or no longer required to do so.

3. The Meters (Determination of Questions) (Expenses) Regulations 1987(3) are hereby revoked.

TABLE

Electricity BoardMonthly Payment
Eastern£1750.00
East Midlands£1250.00
London£3583.33
Merseyside & North Wales£708.33
Midland£2625.00
North Eastern£83.33
North of Scotland Hydro£1500.00
North Western£1958.33
Southern£1875.00
South Eastern£1166.67
South of Scotland£1166.67
South Wales£500.00
South Western£2541.67
Yorkshire£916.67

Michael Spicer

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of Energy

11th July 1988

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations supersede the Meters (Determination of Questions) (Expenses) Regulations 1987. They provide for Electricity Boards to make monthly payments towards administrative expenses incurred by the Secretary of State in connection with the determination of questions as to the correctness of electricity meters. The amount payable by each Board as compared with the amount payable under the Regulations of 1987 is increased or reduced, according to their use of the Electricity Meter Examining Service in the previous year.

(1)

1899 c. 19; section 57 was substituted by the Energy Act 1983 (c. 25), Schedule 1, paragraph 13.

(2)

1947 c. 54; section 57(2) incorporates the Schedule to the Electric Lighting (Clauses) Act 1899 with adaptations and modifications.

(3)

S.I. 1987/901.


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