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Plumbers, Gasfitters, and Drainlayers Act 2006

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5: Meaning of gasfitting

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"What gasfitting means and what work it includes"

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When you hear the term gasfitting, it means certain work with gas pipes and installations. This work includes fixing or unfixing gas pipes, and making sure gas installations are safe and working properly. You can find more information about gasfitting in the Gas Act 1992. The term gasfitting does not include work on gas storage containers or portable gas appliances with their own storage containers. It also does not include adjusting controls on gas appliances that you are meant to adjust yourself. You can check section 3(2) of the Gas Act 1992 for more exclusions. The point of supply is an important concept in gasfitting, and it is defined in regulations made under the Gas Act 1992. Until these regulations are made, the point of supply has a temporary meaning that depends on the situation. If you are a consumer or gas refueller, the point of supply is usually the outlet of the gas measurement system or the custody transfer point. Any terms used in this section that are defined in the Gas Act 1992 have the same meaning as in that Act. This helps to avoid confusion and ensures that everyone understands the rules in the same way. You can look up the Gas Act 1992 for more information on these terms.

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Preliminary provisions

5Meaning of gasfitting

  1. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, gasfitting means—

  2. the following work to the extent that the work is downstream of the point of supply towards the point from which the gas may be consumed:
    1. the work of fixing or unfixing any gas pipes (including flue and ventilation pipes):
      1. the work of fixing or unfixing any gas installation:
        1. the work of ensuring that there is adequate ventilation in relation to any gas installation:
          1. the work of commissioning any gas installation and ensuring its safe operation (including, for example, the testing, setting, checking, and adjusting of safety devices, combustion conditions, and controls associated with the gas installation):
            1. the work of setting safety devices, combustion conditions, and controls in connection with any gas installation that are not designed to be adjusted by a consumer or gas refueller:
              1. the work of recommissioning any gas installation if alteration or repair work has been done on the gas installation or its associated fittings to ensure its safe operation (including, for example, the testing, setting, checking, and adjusting of safety devices, combustion conditions, and controls associated with the gas installation):
              2. the work of fixing or unfixing any gas installation that is attached to, and forms part of, any ship, boat, vehicle, or train.

                1. Despite subsection (1), gasfitting does not include—

                2. any fixing, unfixing, or other work on any gas storage container; or
                  1. any fixing, unfixing, or other work on any gas transmission system, distribution system, or gas measurement system; or
                    1. any fixing, unfixing, or other work on any portable gas appliance that is designed to have with it, or attached to it, its own gas storage container; or
                      1. any work in any circumstances where the exclusions in section 3(2) of the Gas Act 1992 apply; or
                        1. the adjusting of the controls of any gas appliance if the controls are designed to be adjusted by a consumer or gas refueller; or
                          1. the work of installing any heating duct or associated fittings that does not affect combustion or combustion products; or
                            1. any work on vapour return lines connected directly to liquefied petroleum gas storage containers.

                              1. In this section, point of supply, in relation to any place or in any circumstances, means the point of supply of that place or in those circumstances as prescribed by regulations made under the Gas Act 1992.

                              2. However, until the first regulation referred to in subsection (3) is made under the Gas Act 1992, point of supply means,—

                              3. in relation to a consumer or gas refueller, the outlet of any gas measurement system supplying the consumer or gas refueller with gas or, if there is no such gas measurement system, the custody transfer point of the place at which gas is supplied to the consumer or gas refueller:
                                1. in relation to liquefied petroleum gas supplied from any gas storage container in the possession or control of a consumer or gas refueller, the first regulator beyond that container or, if there is no such regulator, the outlet valve of the container:
                                  1. in relation to any other gas supplied from any gas storage container in the possession or control of a consumer or gas refueller, the outlet valve of the container.

                                    1. For the purposes of this section, any term or expression that is defined in the Gas Act 1992 or in regulations made under that Act and used in this section, but not defined in this Act, has the same meaning as in the Gas Act 1992 or those regulations.

                                    Notes
                                    • Section 5(1)(b): amended, on , by section 46 of the Self-contained Motor Vehicles Legislation Act 2023 (2023 No 24).