Australian Capital Territory Numbered Regulations

GAS SUPPLY REGULATIONS 1999 (NO 10 OF 1999) - REG 14

    (1)     Subregulation (2) applies if—

        (a)     a person tests or inspects a consumer piping system, part of a system or a gas appliance—

              (i)     following gasfitting work in relation to the system, part of the system or appliance; or

              (ii)     at the request of the owner or occupier of the premises where the system or appliance is located; and

        (b)     the system, part of the system or appliance is unsafe.

    (2)     Before leaving the premises where the system or appliance is located, the person must—

        (a)     isolate the gas supply to the system, part of the system or the appliance (as the case requires) to make the system or appliance safe; and

        (b)     securely attach an approved tag in a conspicuous place to—

              (i)     if the system or part of the system cannot be made safe—an appropriate meter control valve or isolation valve in the system; or

              (ii)     if an appliance cannot be made safe—the appliance; and

        (c)     immediately—

              (i)     prepare a certificate of compliance indicating the system or appliance (as the case requires) is unsafe; and

              (ii)     deliver the certificate to the owner or occupier of the premises where the system or appliance is located; and

        (d)     immediately notify the regulator or an inspector (for example, by faxing a copy of the certificate of compliance or telephoning an inspector) that the system or appliance is unsafe; and

        (e)     immediately send a copy of the certificate to—

              (i)     the regulator; and

              (ii)     the owner or operator of the distribution pipeline from whose pipeline gas is conveyed to the piping system.

Penalty: 10 penalty units.

    (3)     An approved tag attached in relation to a system or appliance must not be removed unless any defect in the system or the appliance has been corrected and—

        (a)     if the system or part of the system was unsafe—the test and inspection mentioned in regulation 11 (Work on a consumer piping system—testing for defects) has been performed and the system is safe; or

        (b)     if an appliance was unsafe—the inspection and test mentioned in regulation 12 (Connection of gas appliance—testing for defects) has been performed and the appliance is operating correctly and is otherwise safe.

Penalty: 10 penalty units.

    (4)     An inspector may remove a compliance plate if satisfied that the plate relates to a consumer piping system or gas appliance that is unsafe.

    (5)     A person must not, without lawful authority or reasonable excuse, alter, damage, deface or move an approved tag attached to a meter control valve, an isolation valve in a system or a gas appliance.

Penalty: 10 penalty units.

    (6)     In this regulation—