The Measuring Instrument (Amendment) Regulations, 2011

Suppliment tal-Gazzetta tal-Gvern ta’ Malta Nru. 18,702, 25 ta’ Jannar, 2011

L.N. 26 of 2011

THE METROLOGY ACT

(CAP. 454)

The Measuring Instrument (Amendment) Regulations, 2011

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 19 of the

Metrology Act, the Prime Minister, acting on the advice of the

Malta Standards Authority, has made the following regulations

The Measuring Instrument (Amendment) Regulations, Citation.

2011 and they shall be read and construed as one with The

Measuring Instrument Regulations, 2006 hereinafter referred to as L.N. 221 of 2006.

“the principal regulations”.

(1) The scope of these regulations is to transpose

Commission Directive 2009/137/EC of 10 November, 2009

amending Directive 2004/22/EC of the European Parliament and

of the Council on measuring instruments in respect of exploitation

of the maximum permissible errors, as regards the instrument-

specific annexes M1-001 to M1-005.

(2)

These regulations shall come into force on 1st

June, 2011.

Point 6 of the Specific Requirments in Schedule X to the

principal regulations shall be renumbered as point 6.1 thereof, and

immediately thereafter there shall be added the following

“6.2 The meter shall not exploit the MPE or

systematically favour any party.”.

Schedule XI to the principal regulations shall be amended

as follows

(a) In point 2.1 of Part I thereof, for the words from

“When the errors” to the words “for Class 1.0” there shall be

substituted the words

“ The gas meter shall not exploit the MPEs or

systematically favour any party.”.

(b) In point 8 of Part II thereof, immediately after the

words “taken into account” there shall be added, the following

paragraph

“The volume conversion device shall not exploit

the MPEs or systematically favour any party.”.

In point 3 of the Specific Requirements in Schedule XII

to the principal regulations, immediately after the words “relevant

MPE values shall apply.” there shall be added the following new

paragraph

“The meter shall not exploit the MPEs or systematically

favour any party.”.

In point 3 of the Specific Requirements in Schedule

XIII to the principal regulations, immediately after the words

“paragraphs 7.1 to 703.” there shall be added the following new

paragraph

“The complete heat meter shall not exploit the MPEs or

systematically favour any party.”.

Immediately after point 2.7 of the Specific Requirements

in Schedule XIV to the principal regulations, there shall be added

the following new point

“2.8 The measuring system shall not exploit the MPEs or

systematically favour any party.”.

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