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Section 124

Unsafe gas appliances

of Gas Supply Regulations 2023

State Subsidiary LegislationIn forceProvision 124 of 145
Section 124

No person shall use a gas appliance or permit a gas appliance to be used if he knows or has reason to suspect that —

(a)

there is insufficient supply of air available for the gas appliance for proper combustion at the point of combustion;

(b)

the removal of the products of combustion from the gas appliance is not being or cannot be safely carried out;

(c)

the room or internal space in which the gas appliance is situated is not adequately ventilated for the purpose of providing air containing sufficient oxygen for the person present in the room or in the internal space, or in the vicinity of the internal space while the gas appliance is in use;

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(d)

gas is escaping from the gas fitting or gas equipment used in connection with the gas appliance; or

(e)

the gas appliance or any part of it, the gas fitting or gas equipment connected to it cannot be used safely.