### Gas Safety (Registration of Gas Installers and Gas Contractors) Regulations

15. Information and particulars to be furnished
(1) An applicant shall furnish to the Authority such information and particulars as the Authority requires for the purpose of determining whether registration as a gas contractor should be granted or refused.
(2) For the purpose referred to in subregulation (1), the Authority may require the attendance before him of an applicant who is an individual or, in the case of an applicant which is a company, a representative of the company who is an individual authorized in writing by the company to so attend, and may examine any such individual who so attends.

16. Determination of application
(1) Subject to this regulation, upon receipt of an application, the Authority shall, as soon as practicable, by notice served on the applicant—
(a) grant registration to the applicant as a gas contractor; or
(b) refuse to grant registration to the applicant as a gas contractor.
(2) The Authority shall not grant registration to an applicant as a gas contractor unless he is satisfied that—
(a) the applicant is qualified under regulation 13 to be so registered; and
(b) in all the circumstances, the applicant, if so registered, would be capable of complying with the requirements under the Ordinance with which it is his obligation to comply, in particular in relation to the safety of members of the public.
(3) Where the Authority refuses to grant registration to an applicant as a gas contractor, he shall specify in the notice concerned under subregulation (1) his reasons for such refusal of registration.

17. Issue of certificate of registration
Where the Authority grants registration to an applicant as a gas contractor, he shall issue to the applicant a certificate of registration in the approved form as evidence of such registration.

18. Display of certificate of registration
A registered gas contractor shall cause his certificate of registration to be exhibited at all times in a conspicuous position at the office where he carries on business as a gas contractor or, if there is more than one such office, at the principal office where he carries on such business.

19. Notice to be displayed
A registered gas contractor shall exhibit and keep exhibited so as to be easily visible by a person entering the office or each office at which he carries on business as a gas contractor a notice, in the English and Chinese languages—
(a) consisting of letters or characters not less than 5 centimetres in height;
(b) stating his name and the words “REGISTERED GAS CONTRACTOR NUMBER . . . ” or characters “註冊氣體工程承辦商號碼 . . .”;
(c) stating his registration number; and
(d) where he carries on such business under a name other than his own name, stating the name under which he carries on business as a gas contractor.

### Gas Safety (Registration of Gas Installers and Gas Contractors) Regulations

20. Cessation or commencement of business
Where a registered gas contractor ceases to carry on business as a gas contractor at any office or commences to carry on business as a gas contractor at any office, he shall, not later than 21 days after such cessation or commencement, give written notification thereof to the Authority.

21. Advertisements
A registered gas contractor shall not publish an advertisement relating to, or in connection with, his business as a gas contractor unless he specifies in the advertisement that he is a registered gas contractor.

22. Supervision of employees
A registered gas contractor shall ensure, so far as is practicable, that his employees do not personally carry out, or supervise any individual personally carrying out, gas installation work in contravention of any of the requirements under the Ordinance applicable to such work.

23. Records to be kept
(1) Each registered gas contractor shall maintain records in accordance with subregulation (2) of all gas installation work carried out by him and shall keep such records for a period of not less than 2 years after the gas installation work concerned was carried out.
(2) Records under subregulation (1) of gas installation work shall specify—
(a) the address at which such work was carried out;
(b) the nature of such work including, if any such work was carried out on a gas appliance, the type of such appliance;
(c) the name and address of the person for whom such work was carried out; and
(d) the name and registration number of the registered gas installer who—
(i) personally carried out such work; or
(ii) supervised the individual who personally carried out such work,
as the case may be.
(3) Where a person ceases, for whatever reason, to be a registered gas contractor, he shall, as soon as is reasonably practicable but, in any case, not later than 30 days after ceasing to be a registered gas contractor, provide to the Authority the records under subregulation (1) that were required to be kept by him.

24. Registered gas contractor to notify change of name or address
Where any registered gas contractor changes his name, or address for service by post specified in his application under regulation 14, subsequent to his registration as a gas contractor, he shall give written notification to the Authority of such change not later than 21 days after such change takes place.

### Gas Safety (Registration of Gas Installers and Gas Contractors) Regulations

26. Inquiry
(1) Before taking disciplinary action against a registered gas installer or gas contractor, the Authority shall—
(a) by notice served on the gas installer or gas contractor, inform him of the complaint against him; and
(b) hold an inquiry into the matter of the complaint and afford the gas installer or gas contractor an opportunity of giving an explanation—
(i) in writing; or
(ii) personally (which, in the case of a gas contractor which is a company, shall mean an individual authorized in writing by the company for the purpose).
(2) The Authority may in a notice under subregulation (1)—
(a) served on a registered gas installer, direct the gas installer not to personally carry out, or supervise any individual personally carrying out, any gas installation work; and
(b) served on a registered gas contractor, direct the gas contractor not to carry on the business of a gas contractor,
where the Authority is satisfied that his failure to give such a direction may substantially prejudice the safety of members of the public.
(3) A direction referred to in subregulation (2) shall take effect on the day on which the notice under subregulation (1) concerned is served on the registered gas installer or gas contractor, and shall cease to have effect—
(a) on the expiration of 14 days after that day;
(b) on the day on which any disciplinary action taken against the gas installer or gas contractor takes effect; or
(c) if the gas installer or gas contractor is served with a notice by the Authority stating that the direction is revoked,
whichever first occurs.

27. Compulsory surrender of registration document, etc.
(1) Where disciplinary action referred to in regulation 25(1)(a), (b) or (c) is taken against a registered gas installer or gas contractor, the gas installer or gas contractor shall, not later than 14 days after the notice under regulation 25(4) concerned is served on him, surrender to the Authority the registration document to which the disciplinary action relates.
(2) Where disciplinary action referred to in regulation 25(1)(b) taken against a registered gas installer or gas contractor ceases to have effect, the Authority shall, upon the written request of the gas installer or gas contractor, return to the gas installer or gas contractor his registration document surrendered under subregulation (1), or issue to the gas installer or gas contractor another registration document in like terms, and any such document so issued shall, for the purposes of these regulations—
(a) where issued to a gas installer, be deemed to have been issued under regulation 8; or
(b) where issued to a gas contractor, be deemed to have been issued under regulation 17.