New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

DANGEROUS GOODS (GAS INSTALLATIONS) REGULATION 1998 - REG 11

11 Compliance plates

(1) The person responsible for the carrying out of gasfitting work on a gas installation:

(a) must detach any compliance plate from the installation before the work is carried out, and

(b) must attach a compliance plate to the installation after the work is carried out, unless the certificate of inspection issued as a result of the work being carried out indicates that the installation is patently defective.

Contravention of this subclause is an offence and is punishable in accordance with clause 33.

(2) A compliance plate:

(a) must be in the approved form, and

(b) must be constructed of approved material at least 0.5 millimetres thick, and

(c) must have a display area of at least 70 millimetres by 45 millimetres, and

(d) must be attached to the installation in a conspicuous position adjacent to the control valve or other point by which the installation is designed to be connected to a gas container.

(3) A compliance plate must be permanently inscribed, in figures at least 6 millimetres high, with the following information:

(a) the serial number of the certificate of inspection for the installation,

(b) the serial number of the supervisor certificate held by the person by whom the installation was tested,

(c) the serial number of the contractor’s licence held by that person or by the contractor by whom that person is employed,

(d) the date on which that person tested the installation,

(e) an indication of the number and types of gas appliances connected to the installation.

(4) For the purposes of subclause (3) (e), the type of gas appliance specified in Column 1 of the Table to this clause is to be indicated by the numeral specified opposite that appliance in Column 2 of that Table.

Table

Column 1	Column 2
Type of appliance	Numeral
Cooker	1
Refrigerator	2
Sink heater	3
Hot water heater	4
Hot plate	5
Oven	6
Gas light	7
Room heater	8
Other appliance	9