Fuel Gas Meters and Auxiliary Gas Meters. (1) The Operator shall ensure that the Fuel Gas Meters and Auxiliary Gas Meters comply with Regulation 3 of the Regulations. (2) Where a Relevant Shipper or National Grid Gas in accordance with Section 17 of the Act requires any Fuel Gas Meter or Auxiliary Gas Meter to be examined then where such Fuel Gas Meter or Auxiliary Gas Meter is found, when so examined, not to conform to the standards prescribed by the Regulations then:- (a) the Fuel Gas Meter or Auxiliary Gas Meter shall be assumed not to have conformed to the standards prescribed by the Regulations to the degree so found since the penultimate date on which (otherwise than in connection with the examination) the Fuel Gas Meter or Auxiliary Gas Meter was read except in a case where it is proved to have begun not to have conformed as described on some other date and/or as the parties may agree having met (in good faith) and discussed such nonconformity; and (b) the amount by which the quantity determined to have been offtaken on any Day differs from the quantity originally determined to have been offtaken on such Day pursuant to any verification or resolution of any dispute in relation thereto shall be treated as the DM Reconciliation Quantity in respect of the Premises Supply Meter Point and such Day and the provisions of the Network Code in respect of DM Reconciliation (including any charges payable as a consequence of the application of such provisions) shall apply in relation thereto. (3) Where any Fuel Gas Meter or Auxiliary Gas Meter is removed for the purpose of being examined in accordance with paragraph 3.5(2) the expenses incurred in removing, examining and replacing the Fuel Gas Meter or Auxiliary Gas Meter and fixing any substituted Fuel Gas Meter or Auxiliary Gas Meter shall, if the Fuel Gas Meter or Auxiliary Gas Meter is found to conform with the Regulations be paid by the person requesting the examination, otherwise such expenses shall be paid by the Operator. (4) Any examination of any Fuel Gas Meter or Auxiliary Gas Meter under the provisions of this paragraph 3.5 shall be conducted by a meter examiner appointed under Section 17 of the Act. (5) The register of any Fuel Gas Meter or Auxiliary Gas Meter recording the volume of Fuel Gas or Auxiliary Gas shall be corrected to Cubic Metres and corrections for the purpose of this paragraph 3.5(5) shall be effected by:- (a) automatic correctors where available; or (b) reference to the National Grid Gas Standard Factors for Temperature and Pressure Correction. (6) The quantity of Fuel Gas and Auxiliary Gas shall be ascertained by multiplying the number of Cubic Metres of Fuel Gas and Auxiliary Gas (determined in accordance with paragraph 3.5(5) by the calorific value of such Fuel Gas and Auxiliary Gas (as determined in accordance with paragraph 3.7 and dividing the product by three decimal six (3.6). (7) Subject to paragraph 3.5(8) for the purposes of this Agreement the quantity of Fuel Gas and Auxiliary Gas on any Day in a month at a Fuel Gas Meter or Auxiliary Gas Meter which does not have a data logger on that Day shall be deemed to be the quantity derived by dividing the difference between the Fuel Gas Meter reading or the Auxiliary Gas Meter reading made closest to the end of such month (or at a time on which the data logger was installed if applicable) and the Fuel Gas meter reading or the Auxiliary Gas Meter reading made closest to the beginning of such month by the number of Days in the period between such readings when such Fuel Gas Meter or Auxiliary Gas Meter did not have a data logger. The quantity of Fuel Gas or Auxiliary Gas on any Day at a Fuel Gas Meter or Auxiliary Gas Meter which has a data logger on that Day shall be derived from the recordings of the data logger at the beginning and end of that Day. (8) On any Day at any Fuel Gas Meter or Auxiliary Gas Meter at which no data logger is installed National Grid Gas may examine the register of the Fuel Gas Meter or Auxiliary Gas Meter and any quantity thereby determined shall for the purposes of this Agreement be treated as a quantity of Fuel Gas or Auxiliary Gas on that Day at that Fuel Gas Meter or Auxiliary Gas Meter.]
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Samples: Network Exit Agreement, Network Exit Agreement, Network Exit Agreement
