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Plumbers, Gasfitters, and Drainlayers Act 2006

Preliminary and key provisions - Key provisions - Specific gasfitting exemptions

24: Exemption for fixing of water heaters by gasfitters

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"Gasfitters can fix water heaters if they have a licence and are competent."

Illustration for Plumbers, Gasfitters, and Drainlayers Act 2006

You can do work on water heaters if you have a licence to do gasfitting under Part 2. You must show the Board you are competent to do this work. You can only do this work when a person with a sanitary plumbing licence would be allowed to do it. You are allowed to fix or unfix gas water heaters and pipes that supply water to them. This includes pipes that take hot water from the heater to other fittings or appliances. You can do this work even if the fittings or appliances are not there when you do the work.

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Part 1Preliminary and key provisions
Key provisions: Specific gasfitting exemptions

24Exemption for fixing of water heaters by gasfitters

  1. A person may do, or assist in doing, the work described in subsection (2) if—

  2. the person holds a current practising licence issued under Part 2 that authorises the person to do, or assist in doing, gasfitting; and
    1. the person satisfies the Board, by examination or otherwise, that the person is competent to perform the work described in subsection (2); and
      1. that work is performed in circumstances in which a person who holds a current practising licence issued under Part 2 that authorises that person to do sanitary plumbing is authorised to do that work.

        1. The work that may be done under this section is the fixing or unfixing of—

        2. a gas water heater; or
          1. any pipe that supplies, or is intended to supply, water to a gas water heater or hot water from a gas water heater to any fitting or appliance, whether or not any fitting or appliance is there when the work is done.

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