Who is Responsible for ensuring that Servicing and Maintenance of a Domestic Gas Appliance is undertaken?
In short everyone, the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Reguations places the responsibility for safety of the installation on the ‘responsible’ person for the installation. So for a typical domestic dwelling, it will be the home owner. For rented accommodation it will be the landlord and/or managing agent (tenants need to assist landlords in terms of allowing access for planned servicing and maintenance visits). The Regulations also place a duty on the ‘responsible’ person to employe suitably competent and registered gas installers to undertake ‘work’ on gas appliances.
