### Gas Safety (Registration of Gas Supply Companies) Regulations

9. General self-regulating duty of registered gas supply company
(1) It shall be the duty of every registered gas supply company to ensure, in carrying on its business as a gas supply company, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health and safety at work of all its employees and to conduct its operations in a safe manner so that members of the public are not exposed to undue risks from gas.
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of a registered gas supply company’s duty under subregulation (1), the matters to which that duty extends include in particular—
(a) the provision and maintenance of plant and systems of work that are, so far as is reasonably practicable, safe and without risks to health;
(b) arrangements for ensuring, so far as is reasonably practicable, safety and absence of risks to health in connection with the carrying on of its business as a gas supply company;
(c) the provision of such information, instruction, training and supervision as is necessary to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health and safety at work of its employees;
(d) so far as is reasonably practicable as regards any place of work under its control, the maintenance of it in a condition that is safe and without risks to health and the provision and maintenance of means of access to and egress from it that are safe and without such risks; and
(e) the provision and maintenance of a working environment for its employees that is, so far as is reasonably practicable, safe and without risks to health.

### Gas Safety (Registration of Gas Supply Companies) Regulations

10. Registered gas supply company to provide Authority with written statement of its health and safety arrangements, etc.
(1) It shall be the duty of every registered gas supply company to prepare, as soon as is reasonably practicable after it is first registered, and thereafter as often as may be necessary revise, a written statement of its general policy with respect to the health and safety at work of its employees and the organization and arrangements for the time being in force for carrying out that policy, and to—
(a) bring the statement and any revision of it to the notice of all its employees; and
(b) provide a copy of the statement and any revision of it to the Authority, as soon, so far as is reasonably practicable, after the statement is prepared or revised, as the case may be.
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of subregulation (1), a statement required under that subregulation from a registered gas supply company shall, where applicable, include—
(a) details as to how it complies with its duty under regulation 9;
(b) details as to all safety rules and procedures to be followed by it, or others on its behalf, for constructing, installing, operating, monitoring and maintaining its gas installations;
(c) details on how it advises consumers or others on the safe use of gas supplied by it;
(d) details as to the qualifications it requires for all its key operational positions which carry responsibility for gas safety, and the particular areas of responsibility for such positions;
(e) details as to the training, monitoring and, where appropriate, testing arrangements it provides in relation to ensuring competence of personnel at all levels of its operations;
(f) the arrangements in force for carrying out and supervising the construction, installation and maintenance of gas installations including the arrangements in force for others who carry out such work for it, in particular the arrangements in force for carrying out quality control;
(g) the monitoring arrangements used to verify compliance with its operating procedures in connection with the carrying on of its business as a gas supply company;
(h) the arrangements in force for dealing with reports from members of the public of escaping gas;
(i) the arrangements in force for dealing with gas emergencies; and
(j) the arrangements in force for carrying out gas leakage surveys.

11. Certain persons only may store or transport gas
(1) Subject to subregulation (2), no person shall store or transport gas imported or manufactured by a registered gas supply company unless—
(a) he is an employee of the company storing or transporting such gas in the course of his work as such an employee; or
(b) he has the approval in writing of the company so to do.
(2) Subregulation (1) shall not apply to the storage or transport of liquefied petroleum gas in disposable cylinders.

### Gas Safety (Registration of Gas Supply Companies) Regulations

12. Storage, transport and supply of liquefied petroleum gas by gas distributors
No gas distributor shall store, transport or supply any liquefied petroleum gas other than such gas provided by a registered gas supply company for which he is a gas distributor, irrespective of whether such gas is provided to such gas distributor by—
(a) such company; or
(b) another gas distributor for such company.

13. Registered gas supply company to notify Authority of its gas distributors
It shall be the duty of every registered gas supply company—
(a) to give written notice to the Authority of the names and addresses of all its gas distributors but, in any particular case, not later than 28 days after any person has become such a gas distributor; and
(b) to give written notice to the Authority of the name and address of any person who has, by whatever means, ceased to be one of its gas distributors but, in any particular case, not later than 28 days after any person has ceased to be such a gas distributor.

14. Registered gas supply company to monitor its gas distributors
It shall be the duty of every registered gas supply company that has gas distributors—
(a) to have in force at all times a system of monitoring its gas distributors to ensure the gas distributors—
(i) are competent to handle liquefied petroleum gas; and
(ii) are in possession of—
(A) the provisions setting out the requirements under the Ordinance;
(B) any approved codes of practice; and
(C) any instructions issued by the company, relevant to the matters to be carried out or observed by a gas distributor; and
(b) to have in force at all times a system for training its gas distributors in the safe handling of liquefied petroleum gas, which system may be, or include, assistance of the provision of others for such training.

15. Registered gas supply company to report major gas emergencies
Where there is a major gas emergency, the registered gas supply company concerned shall—
(a) forthwith after it becomes aware of the emergency report the emergency to the Authority but, in any case, not later than the next working day after the day on which the emergency occurred;
(b) provide the Authority with such information and details in relation to the emergency as he requires; and
(c) not later than 28 days after the day on which the emergency occurred, furnish the Authority with a written report stating, so far as is reasonably practicable—
(i) the cause of the emergency; and
(ii) the actions which are or have been implemented to prevent, so far as is reasonably practicable, the recurrence of any similar emergency.