Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts

GAS SAFETY ACT 2000 - SECT 25

    (1)     A trader must not, without reasonable excuse, sell an appliance if a compliance indicator is not attached to the appliance in accordance with the regulations.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.

    (2)     For the gas safety legislation, a compliance indicator for an appliance is a plate, label, badge or mark that, when attached to an appliance—

        (a)     complies with the gas safety legislation or a corresponding law; and

        (b)     indicates that the appliance is safe to use and complies with the gas safety legislation or a corresponding law.

    (3)     Subsection (1) does not apply if—

        (a)     the trader believed on reasonable grounds that the appliance was not capable of being used as an appliance; and

        (b)     the sale was made on the basis that the appliance could not be used as an appliance.

    (4)     Subsection (1) does not apply to—

        (a)     a second-hand appliance; or

        (b)     an appliance within 6 months after it becomes an approved appliance.