Gas Safety Register - what Landlords need to know
From 1 April 2009 landlords must ensure that anyone carrying out work on gas appliances at their property (including flues) are registered on the new Gas Safety Register. CORGI registration will no longer be in force and there will be no grace period – the Gas Safety Register will be effective immediately from 1 April 2009.
If an engineer who carries out a check of a gas appliance is not on the Gas Safety Register, residential landlords (including social housing landlords) will breach Regulation 36 of the Gas Safety Regulations 1998 as well as the Building Regulations 2000. It will not be enough that the engineer is CORGI-registered.
A link to the Gas Safety Register is set out below.
