Section 2

“additional gas installation” means an addition of gas pipeline to an existing gas installation which is not indicated in the drawings of the existing gas installations which have been approved;

“domestic gas installation” means a single gas installation in a private dwelling which is not used as a hotel or boarding house or for the purpose of carrying out any business, trade or profession or for providing any service;

“gas appliance” means an appliance designed for use or to be used by a consumer of gas for heating, burning, motive power or other purposes for which gas can be used and includes a gas appliance regulator;

“Gas Contractor” means a person who holds a Certificate of Registration as a Gas Contractor issued under regulation 100;

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“Gas Engineer” means a person who holds a Certificate of Competency as a Gas Engineer issued under regulation 94;

“Gas Engineering Supervisor” means a person who holds a Certificate of

Competency as a Gas Engineering Supervisor issued under regulation 95;

“gas equipment” means a functioning item such as a valve or pressure regulator used in a gas system;

“Gas Fitter” means a person who holds a Certificate of Competency as a

Gas Fitter, with or without restrictions, issued under regulation 97;

“gas fitting” means an item in a piping or tubing system that is used as a connector such as an elbow, a return bend, tee, a union, a bushing, coupling, cross or nipple but does not include a functioning item such as a valve or pressure regulator;

“gas main pipe” means a pipe installed in a community to convey gas to an individual service pipeline or other main pipe;

“gas service pipe” means the pipe between the gas main pipe and a meter installed on the premises of a consumer and includes any pipe downstream of a service isolation valve;

“meter” means a device installed to measure, ascertain or regulate the amount of gas taken or used from the main supply;

“operating pressure” means the pressure of gas at which a gas system is operated;

“person” includes a firm, a company, an association, a partnership (whether or not having a separate legal personality), or a body of persons (whether incorporated or not);

“purge” means the removal of all air and gas other than the gas supplied from a gas service pipe, meter, gas equipment or gas appliance;

“regulator” means a device used for regulating gas pressure;

“responsible person”, in relation to any premises, means the licensee or consumer, or an occupier of the premises, or where there is no consumer or occupier, the owner of the premises or any person authorized by the consumer or occupier to

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be in charge of the gas pipeline or gas installation in the premises;

“service isolation valve” means a valve installed at or near the boundary line of a property or at the apron of a building for the purpose of controlling or shutting off gas flow;

“valve” means a device used for the purpose of controlling or shutting off gas flow and includes a service isolation valve;

“work”, in relation to a gas pipeline or gas installation, means the following work: