Victorian Consolidated Regulations

GAS SAFETY (GAS INSTALLATION) REGULATIONS 1999

S.R. No. 6/1999
Version incorporating amendments as at 7 March 2008

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Regulation Page

   PART 1-PRELIMINARY

   1.      Objectives
   2.      Authorising provisions
   3.      Commencement
   4.      Definitions
   5.      Matters excluded from the operation of the regulations
   6.      Application for exemption
   7.      Application of adopted standards
   8.      Standard gas installation

   PART 2-APPLIANCES

   9.      Application for acceptance of new Type A appliance or class of new Type A appliances
   10.     Application for acceptance of second-hand Type A appliance or class of Type A appliances
   11.     Testing of appliances
   12.     Compliance plates for new Type A appliances
   13.     Compliance plates for second-hand Type A appliances
   13A.    Prescribed Type A appliances

   PART 3-GASFITTING WORK

           Division 1-Standards

   14.     Prescribed standard for Type B appliances
   15.     Standards for second-hand Type A appliances
   16.     Prescribed standards for gas installations
   16A.    Prescribed standard for gasfitting work

           Division 2-General requirements in relation to gasfitting work

   17.     Purpose of Division
   18.     Safety of installation
   19.     Clearance of consumer piping
   19A.    Consumer piping installed outside allotment on which gas installation situated
   20.     Gas pressure raising devices in consumer piping

           Division 3-Responsibilities of person carrying out gasfitting work

   21.     Reporting of gas incidents
   22.     Dangerous gas installations

           Division 4-Standards and requirements in relation to special gasfitting work

   23.     Application
   24.     Notice of proposal to carry out special gasfitting work
   25.     Hot-tapping work

           Division 5-Special requirements for high pressure consumer
           piping

   26.     Application
   27.     Standard for high pressure consumer piping
   28.     Approval of installation of high pressure consumer piping

   PART 4-GAS INSTALLATIONS

   29.     Prescribed standard gas installations
   30.     Application for acceptance of gas installation
   31.     Inspection and testing of gas installations
   31A.    Acceptance of gas installations containing Type B appliances subject to conditions
   32.     Compliance plates for Type B appliances in Type B gas installations
   33.     Notice of LP Gas installations
   34.     Connection of gas to installation

   PART 5-GENERAL

   35.     Duty to keep Type B appliance in a proper state of repair
   36.     Duty to report gas incidents
   37.     Power of inspector to disconnect or order disconnection
   38.     Exception for supply of gas by gas company
   39.     Prescribed requirements for supply or sale of LPG
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           SCHEDULE 1-Standards and Codes
           SCHEDULE 2-Application for Exemption
           SCHEDULE 3-Information to be Supplied by Persons Seeking Acceptance of a New Type A Appliance
           SCHEDULE 4-Information to be Supplied by Persons Seeking Acceptance of a Second-Hand Type A Appliance
           SCHEDULE 5-New Type A appliance
           SCHEDULE 6-Second-hand Type A appliance
           SCHEDULE 7-Information to be Supplied by Persons Seeking Acceptance of a Gas Installation
           SCHEDULE 8-Additional Information to be Supplied for a Type B Appliance in a Complex Gas Installation
           SCHEDULE 8A-Statement of Compliance in Relation to Gas Installations Containing Type B Appliances
           SCHEDULE 9-Statement of Compliance
           SCHEDULE 10-Type B appliance
           SCHEDULE 11-Information to be Supplied in Relation to Standard
           Gas Installation to Operate on LP Gas
           SCHEDULE 12-Warning Sign
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           ENDNOTES
           1. General Information
           2. Table of Amendments
           3. Explanatory Details