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

28. Appeals to appeal board
(1) Any person aggrieved by—
(a) a decision of the Authority—
(i) under regulation 7(l)(a) in any case where regulation 7(3)(a) applies; or
(ii) under regulation 7(1)(b) or 16(1)(b); or
(b) disciplinary action taken against him,
may appeal to an appeal board against that decision or disciplinary action, as the case may be.
(2) An appeal under this regulation shall—
(a) be in writing;
(b) set out the details of or be accompanied by—
(i) in the case of a decision under regulation 7(l)(a) or (b), the notice under regulation 7(1) concerned;
(ii) in the case of a decision under regulation 16(1)(b), the notice under regulation 16(1) concerned; and
(iii) in the case of disciplinary action, the notices under regulations 25(4) and 26(l)(a) concerned;
(c) be commenced within 30 days after—
(i) the decision appealed against was made; or
(ii) the disciplinary action appealed against has taken effect,
as the case may be; and
(d) be delivered to the Secretary.
(3) A person who appeals under this regulation shall deliver to the Authority notice of, and the grounds for, the appeal.
(4) Subject to subregulation (5), a decision referred to in subregulation (1) or disciplinary action shall take effect immediately, notwithstanding that an appeal has been or may be made under this regulation against such decision or disciplinary action.
(5) Where an appeal is made under this regulation against disciplinary action referred to in regulation 25(1)(a), (b) or (c), the Authority may suspend that disciplinary action upon such term as he thinks fit and, for that purpose, the Authority shall have such powers as are necessary to give effect to that suspension.

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

29. Register
(1) The Authority shall keep in the approved form a register in 2 parts, of which—
(a) Part 1 shall contain—
(i) the name, address for service by post, date of registration and registration number of every registered gas installer;
(ii) in respect of each registered gas installer, the class or classes of gas installation work in respect of which he is so registered; and
(iii) such other particulars in respect of registered gas installers as the Authority thinks fit; and
(b) Part 2 shall contain—
(i) the name, address for service by post, date of registration and registration number of every registered gas contractor;
(ii) in respect of each registered gas contractor, the address of every office at which the gas contractor carries on business as a gas contractor; and
(iii) such other particulars in respect of registered gas contractors as the Authority thinks fit.
(2) The Authority may make such alterations to the particulars entered in the register as he thinks fit to ensure the accuracy of the register.

30. Inspection of register
(1) The register shall be kept at the office of the Authority or at such other place as may be notified by the Authority by notice in the Gazette.
(2) Any person shall be entitled—
(a) to inspect the register during ordinary office hours and take copies of any entry therein; and
(b) on payment of a fee of $20, to obtain from the Authority a copy, certified by or under the authority of the Authority to be correct, of any entry in the register.

31. Advertising
No person shall advertise or otherwise hold himself out as—
(a) a gas installer unless he is a registered gas installer;
(b) a gas installer in respect of a class of gas installation work unless he is a registered gas installer in respect of such class; or
(c) a gas contractor unless he is a registered gas contractor.

32. Lost, etc. registration documents
Where the registration document issued to any registered gas installer or gas contractor has been lost, defaced or destroyed, the Authority may, upon payment of a fee of $150, 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; and
(b) where issued to a gas contractor, be deemed to have been issued under regulation 17.

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

33. Voluntary surrender of registration document
(1) Subject to this regulation, a registered gas installer or gas contractor may surrender his registration document by lodging it at the office of the Authority.
(2) The surrender of a registration document under subregulation (1) shall not have effect until the gas installer or gas contractor to whom that document was issued is served with a notice by the Authority stating that the Authority accepts the surrender of such document.
(3) The Authority may refuse to accept the surrender of a registration document under subregulation (1) where the gas installer or gas contractor to whom that document was issued has been served a notice under regulation 26(1)(a) unless and until the complaint to which that notice relates has been disposed of by the Authority—
(a) taking disciplinary action; or
(b) refusing to take disciplinary action,
against that gas installer or gas contractor.
(4) Immediately upon the surrender of a registration document under subregulation (1) having effect in accordance with subregulation (2), the gas installer or gas contractor to whom that document was issued shall cease to be a registered gas installer or gas contractor, as the case may be, but shall remain liable for—
(a) any act or omission done, caused, permitted or made by him prior to the surrender; and
(b) any liability incurred by him under the Ordinance prior to the surrender.

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

34. Exemptions
(1) The Authority may exempt in writing any person from any of the provisions of these regulations specified in such exemption—
(a) where the Authority is of the opinion that the safety of members of the public will not be prejudiced by such exemption; and
(b) subject to such reasonable conditions as the Authority thinks fit specified in such exemption.
(2) Without limiting the generality of subregulation (1), an individual who is employed in an industrial undertaking and who, by reason of substantial training and practical experience, is competent to personally carry out gas installation work in relation to plant used in such undertaking, may personally carry out such work in relation to such plant without being registered as a gas installer, and—
(a) where the individual so carries out such work in relation to such plant, he shall be deemed not to have contravened regulation 3(1) thereby; and
(b) a person who is not a registered gas contractor who employs that individual in that undertaking to personally carry out such work in relation to such plant shall be deemed not to have contravened regulation 12(2) thereby.
(3) The Authority may by notice in the Gazette exempt any class of persons from any of the provisions of these regulations specified in such exemption—
(a) where the Authority is of the opinion that the safety of members of the public will not be prejudiced by such exemption; and
(b) subject to such reasonable conditions as the Authority thinks fit specified in such exemption.
(4) For the purposes of subregulation (2), “industrial undertaking” (工業經營) means industrial undertaking within the meaning of the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance (Cap. 59).