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

3. Persons who may personally carry out gas installation work
(1) Subject to subregulations (2), (3) and (4), no person other than a registered gas installer who is—
(a) a registered gas contractor; or
(b) the employee of a registered gas contractor,
shall personally carry out any gas installation work.
(2) A registered gas installer may personally carry out any gas installation work—
(a) of a class in respect of which he is so registered; and
(b) in domestic premises occupied by him,
without being a registered gas contractor or the employee of a registered gas contractor.
(3) An individual who is undergoing training for the purpose of satisfying any requirements necessary to qualify him for the issue of a registration card may personally carry out any gas installation work if, in relation to such work, he is under the supervision of a registered gas installer referred to in subregulation (1).
(4) Subject to subregulation (7), an individual may personally carry out gas installation work which consists of—
(a) the fabrication of gas pipes; or
(b) the placing in position of gas fittings,
where—
(i) gas is not and has not been supplied to the gas supply system in respect of which such work is being carried out; and
(ii) in relation to such work, he is under the supervision of a registered gas installer referred to in subregulation (1).
(5) No registered gas installer shall personally carry out any gas installation work which is not gas installation work of a class in respect of which he is so registered unless he is under the supervision of a registered gas installer who is so registered in respect of that class.
(6) No registered gas installer shall supervise any individual personally carrying out any gas installation work unless such work is gas installation work of a class in respect of which he is so registered.
(7) Subregulation (4) shall expire upon the expiration of 5 years immediately following the commencement of the Ordinance.

4. Qualifications for registration
A person is qualified to be registered as a gas installer in respect of a class of gas installation work if—
(a) he is an individual; and
(b) he—
(i) has the prescribed qualifications applicable to that class;
(ii) has qualifications which, in the opinion of the Authority, are not less than the prescribed qualifications referred to in subparagraph (i); or
(iii) has, in the opinion of the Authority, such knowledge and relevant practical experience with respect to that class as is not less than that specified in the prescribed qualifications referred to in subparagraph (i).

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

5. Application for registration
(1) A person may make an application in the approved form to the Authority to be registered as a gas installer but, in any case, he shall state in that form—
(a) the class or classes of gas installation work in respect of which he is seeking such registration; and
(b) his address for service by post.
(2) An application under subregulation (1) shall be accompanied by a fee of $395. (L.N. 315 of 1993; L.N. 605 of 1994; L.N. 36 of 1997; L.N. 24 of 1998; L.N. 137 of 1998)

6. 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 installer 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, and may examine any applicant who so attends.

7. 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 installer to carry out gas installation work of such class or classes as the Authority thinks fit and as is or are specified in that notice; or
(b) refuse to grant registration to the applicant as a gas installer.
(2) The Authority shall not grant registration to an applicant as a gas installer unless he is satisfied that—
(a) the applicant is qualified under regulation 4 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—
(a) grants registration to an applicant as a gas installer in respect of a class or classes of gas installation work other than that stated in his application as the class or classes of such work in respect of which he is seeking such registration; or
(b) refuses to grant registration to an applicant as a gas installer,
he shall specify in the notice concerned under subregulation (1) his reasons for such registration or refusal of registration, as the case may be.

8. Issue of registration card
Where the Authority grants registration to an applicant as a gas installer, he shall issue to the applicant a registration card in the approved form as evidence of such registration but, in any case, such card shall specify the class or classes of gas installation work in respect of which the applicant is so registered.

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

9. Registered gas installer to check gas installation work carried out by individuals under his supervision
Where an individual personally carrying out any gas installation work is, in relation to such work, under the supervision of a registered gas installer, such gas installer shall check such work to ensure it has been carried out in accordance with the requirements under the Ordinance applicable to such work.

10. Production of registration card
(1) A registered gas installer carrying out any gas installation work must, on request by any person, produce his or her registration card or an equivalent document to the person.
(2) The Authority may recognize any document specified by the Authority as an equivalent document for the purposes of subsection (1).
(3) If a recognition is made under subsection (2), the Authority may specify the circumstances under which the recognition takes effect.
(22 of 2014 s. 39)

11. Registered gas installer to notify change of name or address
Where any registered gas installer changes his name, or address for service by post specified in his application under regulation 5, subsequent to his registration as a gas installer, he shall give written notification to the Authority of such change not later than 21 days after such change takes place.

12. Only registered gas contractors may carry on business of gas contractor, etc.
(1) No person other than a registered gas contractor shall carry on the business of a gas contractor.
(2) Subject to subregulation (3), no person shall employ a person other than a registered gas contractor to carry out any gas installation work.
(3) Subregulation (2) shall not apply to the employment by a registered gas contractor of persons for the purpose of carrying on his business as a gas contractor.

13. Qualifications for registration
A person is qualified to be registered as a gas contractor if—
(a) the person is an individual or a company; and
(b) having regard to the scope of the person’s proposed business operations and the liabilities the person may incur in the course of carrying on the business of a gas contractor, the person has sufficient material resources to carry on business as a gas contractor.

14. Application for registration
(1) A person may make an application in the approved form to the Authority to be registered as a gas contractor but, in any case, he shall state in that form his address for service by post.
(2) An application under subregulation (1) shall be accompanied by a fee of $5,110. (L.N. 315 of 1993; L.N. 605 of 1994; L.N. 36 of 1997; L.N. 24 of 1998; L.N. 137 of 1998)