Australian Capital Territory Numbered Regulations

GAS SUPPLY REGULATIONS 1999 (NO 10 OF 1999) - REG 15

    (1)     This regulation applies if—

        (a)     a person tests or inspects a consumer piping system, part of a system or 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 safe.

    (2)     The person must immediately—

        (a)     prepare a certificate of compliance indicating the system, part of the system or appliance (as the case requires) is safe; and

        (b)     either—

              (i)     deliver the certificate to the owner or occupier of the premises where the system is, or the appliance is or was, located; or

              (ii)     leave the certificate, addressed to the owner or occupier, at those premises; and

        (c)     fix a compliance plate in a conspicuous place to a permanent structure near the meter through which gas is conveyed to the consumer piping system or appliance; and

        (d)     record the applicable information on the compliance plate.

Penalty: 10 penalty units.

    (3)     The person must within 7 days send a copy of the certificate to—

        (a)     the regulator; and

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

Penalty for contravention of subregulation (3): 10 penalty units.