Consumer piping system not to be used unless certified safe
18 Consumer piping system not to be used unless certified safe
This section applies to a consumer piping system on which gasfitting work is done after the commencement of this regulation, whether the work involves—
installation of the system as new; or
work on a previously existing system.
The owner of the system must not, without reasonable excuse, use gas supplied through the system, or allow gas supplied through the system to be used, unless, in relation to the gasfitting work done after the commencement—
a compliance plate is attached; or
a certificate of compliance has been given in accordance with section 12 (Certificates of compliance).
Maximum penalty: 10 penalty units.
Subsection (1) does not apply to the testing of the system by the gasfitter in relation to the gasfitting work.
In this section:
compliance plate means a thing fixed in a conspicuous place to a permanent structure near a meter through which gas is conveyed to the consumer piping system in accordance with the regulation, section 11 as in force immediately before the commencement of the Gas Safety Legislation Amendment Act 2014.
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