Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
  • These Regulations may be cited as the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on 3rd October 1998.
  • (1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—
    • “appropriate fitting” means a fitting which—
      • (a) has been designed for the purpose of effecting a gas tight seal in a pipe or other gasway;
      • (b) achieves that purpose when fitted; and
      • (c) is secure, so far as is reasonably practicable, against unauthorised opening or removal;
    • “distribution main” means any main through which a transporter is for the time being distributing gas and which is not being used only for the purpose of conveying gas in bulk;
    • “emergency control” means a valve for shutting off the supply of gas in an emergency, being a valve intended for use by a consumer of gas;
    • “flue” means a passage for conveying the products of combustion from a gas appliance to the external air and includes any part of the passage in a gas appliance duct which serves the purpose of a flue;
    • “gas” means any substance which is or (if it were in a gaseous state) would be gas within the meaning of the Gas Act 1986
    • except that it does not include gas consisting wholly or mainly of hydrogen when used in non-domestic premises;
    • “gas appliance” means an appliance designed for use by a consumer of gas for heating, lighting, cooking or other purposes for which gas can be used but it does not include a portable or mobile appliance suppled with gas from a cylinder, or the cylinder, pipes and other fittings used for supplying gas to that appliance, save that, for the purposes of regulations 3, 35 and 36 of these Regulations, it does include a portable or mobile space heater supplied with gas from a cylinder, and the cylinder, pipes and other fittings used for supplying gas to that heater;
    • “gas fittings” means gas pipework, valves (other than emergency controls) , regulators and meters, and fittings, apparatus and appliances designed for use by consumers of gas for heating, lighting, cooking or other purposes for which gas can be used (other than the purpose of an industrial process carried out on industrial premises) , but it does not mean—
      • (a) any part of a service pipe;
      • (b) any part of a distribution main or other pipe upstream of the service pipe;
      • (c) a gas storage vessel; or
      • (d) a gas cylinder or cartridge designed to be disposed of when empty;
    • “gas storage vessel” means a storage container designed to be filled or re-filled with gas at the place where it is connected for use or a re-fillable cylinder designed to store gas, and includes the vapour valve; but it does not include a cylinder or cartridge designed to be disposed of when empty;
    • “gas water heater” includes a gas fired central heating boiler;
    • “installation pipework” means any pipework for conveying gas for a particular consumer and any associated valve or other gas fitting including any pipework used to connect a gas appliance to other installation pipework and any shut off device at the inlet to the appliance, but it does not mean—
      • (a) a service pipe;
      • (b) a pipe comprised in a gas appliance;
      • (c) any valve attached to a storage container or cylinder; or
      • (d) service pipework;
    • “meter by pass” means any pipe and other gas fittings used in connection with it through which gas can be conveyed from a service pipe or service pipework to installation pipework without passing through the meter;
    • “primary meter” means the meter nearest to and downstream of a service pipe or service pipework for ascertaining the quantity of gas supplied through that pipe or pipework by a supplier;
    • “re-fillable cylinder” means a cylinder which is filled other than at the place where it is connected for use;
    • “the responsible person”, in relation to any premises, means the occupier of the premises or, where there is no occupier or the occupier is away, the owner of the premises or any person with authority for the time being to take appropriate action in relation to any gas fitting therein;
    • “room-sealed appliance” means an appliance whose combustion system is sealed from the room in which the appliance is located and which obtains air for combustion from a ventilated uninhabited space within the premises or directly from the open air outside the premises and which vents the products of combustion directly to open air outside the premises;
    • “service pipe” means a pipe for distributing gas to premises from a distribution main, being any pipe between the distribution main and the outlet of the first emergency control downstream from the distribution main;
    • “service pipework” means a pipe for supplying gas to premises from a gas storage vessel, being any pipe between the gas storage vessel and the outlet of the emergency control;
    • “service valve” means a valve (other than an emergency control) for controlling a supply of gas, being a valve—
      • (a) incorporated in a service pipe; and
      • (b) intended for use by a transporter of gas; and
      • (c) not situated inside a building;
    • “supplier” in relation to gas means—
      • (a) a person who supplies gas to any premises through a primary meter; or
      • (b) a person who provides a supply of gas to a consumer by means of the filling or re-filling...

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