Victorian Consolidated Regulations

GAS SAFETY (GAS INSTALLATION) REGULATIONS 2008

S.R. No. 165/2008
Version as at 18 January 2009

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Regulation Page

   PART 1-PRELIMINARY

   1.      Objectives
   2.      Authorising provision
   3.      Commencement
   4.      Revocation
   5.      Definitions
   6.      Matters excluded from the operation of the regulations
   7.      Application of adopted standards
   8.      Standard gas installations

   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 Type A appliances
   12.     Compliance plates for new Type A appliances
   13.     Compliance plates for second-hand Type A appliances
   14.     Prescribed Type A appliances

   PART 3-GASFITTING WORK

           Division 1-Standards

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

           Division 2-General requirements in relation to gasfitting work

   19.     Clearance of consumer piping
   20.     Consumer piping installed outside allotment on which gas installation situated
   21.     Devices in consumer piping
   22.     Safety of installation
   23.     Application for exemption

           Division 3-Responsibilities of person carrying out gasfitting work

   24.     Reporting of gas incidents
   25.     Dangerous gas installations

           Division 4-Standards and requirements in relation to hot-tapping work

   26.     Standards and requirements for hot-tapping work

           Division 5-Special requirements for high pressure consumer
           piping

   27.     Standards and requirements for high pressure consumer piping

           Division 6-Special requirements for flueless space heaters

   28.     Requirements for flueless space heaters
   29.     Installation of flueless space heaters
   30.     Prohibition on conversion of flueless space heaters

   PART 4-ACCEPTANCE OF GAS INSTALLATIONS

   31.     Application for acceptance of gas installation
   32.     Inspection and testing of gas installations
   33.     Acceptance of gas installations containing Type B appliances subject to conditions
   34.     Compliance plates for Type B appliances

   PART 5-GENERAL

   35.     Duty to keep complex gas installation 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
           SCHEDULE 2-Information to be Supplied by Persons Seeking Acceptance of a New Type A Appliance
           SCHEDULE 3-Information to be Supplied by Persons Seeking Acceptance of a Second-Hand Type A Appliance
           SCHEDULE 4-Compliance Plate Details
           SCHEDULE 5-Compliance Plate Details
           SCHEDULE 6-Application for Exemption
           SCHEDULE 7-Information to be Supplied by Persons Seeking Acceptance of a Gas Installation
           SCHEDULE 8-Additional Information to be Supplied by Persons Seeking Acceptance of Certain Gas Installations
           SCHEDULE 9-Additional Information to be Supplied for a Type B Appliance
           SCHEDULE 10-Statement of Compliance in Relation to A Gas Installation
           SCHEDULE 11-Statement of Compliance in Relation to Completion
           of Gas Installation
           SCHEDULE 12-Compliance Plate Details
           SCHEDULE 13-Warning Sign
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           ENDNOTES
           1. General Information
           2. Table of Amendments
           3. Explanatory Details