The Gas Appliances (Safety) Regulations 1992

1. Introductory Text

2. Preliminary

   1. 1. Citation, commencement and revocation

   2. 2. Interpretation

   3. 3. Essential requirements

   4. 4. Application of Regulations

   5. 5. Appointment and functions of notified bodies

   6. 6. Fees

3. Supply of gas appliances and fittings

   1. 7. Appliances and fittings to satisfy the essential requirements and to be safe

   2. 8. Obligation on suppliers of appliances and fittings

   3. 9. Application of regulations 7 and 8

4. Certification and attestation

   1. 10. EC type-examination

   2. 11. Application to be made to a single notified body

   3. 12. Refusal of EC type-examination certificate

   4. 13. Withdrawal of EC type-examination certificate

   5. 14. Quality system approval

   6. 15. Withdrawal of quality system approval

   7. 16. EC declaration of conformity (guarantee of product or production quality)

   8. 17. EC verification (individual appliances and fittings)

   9. 18. EC verification by batch (statistical method)

   10. 19. EC unit verification

   11. 20. Refusal to issue certificate of conformity

   12. 21. EC declaration of conformity to type (type examination)

   13. 22. Surveillance by notified bodies

   14. 23. Failure to comply with Regulations: powers of notified bodies

5. Affixing of EC mark etc.

   1. 24. EC mark to be affixed to appliances and fitting certificate to be supplied with fittings

   2. 25. Conformity with other directives etc.

6. Enforcement

   1. 26. Duties of enforcement authorities

   2. 27. Offences relating to domestic animals and to property

   3. 28. Proceedings

7. General

   1. 29. Requirement to give information about appliance which does not bear the EC mark

   2. 30. Regulations to be treated as safety regulations within the meaning of the 1987 Act

8. Signature

9. 1. SCHEDULE 1

      ANNEX IV OF COUNCIL DIRECTIVE OF 29TH JUNE 1990 ON THE APPROXIMATION OF THE LAWS OF MEMBER STATES RELATING TO APPLIANCES BURNING GASEOUS FUELS

      1. DESIGN DOCUMENTATION

   2. SCHEDULE 2

      SPECIMEN FORM OF EC MARK TO BE PLACED ON OR TO ACCOMPANY APPLIANCES

   3. SCHEDULE 3

      ANNEX 1 OF COUNCIL DIRECTIVE OF 29TH JUNE 1990 ON THE APPROXIMATION OF THE LAWS OF MEMBER STATES RELATING TO APPLIANCES BURNING GASEOUS FUELS

      1. ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS

         1. Preliminary remark

      2. 1 GENERAL CONDITIONS

         1. 1.1. Appliances must be so designed and built as to operate...

         2. 1.2. When placed on the market, all appliances must: be accompanied...

         3. 1.2.1. The technical instructions intended for the installer must contain all...

         4. 1.2.2. The instructions for use and servicing intended for the user...

         5. 1.2.3. The warning notices on the appliance and its packaging must...

         6. 1.3. Fittings intended to be part of an appliance must be...

      3. 2 MATERIALS

         1. 2.1. Materials must be appropriate for their intended purpose and must...

         2. 2.2. The properties of materials that are important for safety must...

      4. 3 DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION

         1. 3.1. General

         2. 3.1.1. Appliances must be so constructed that, when used normally, no...

         3. 3.1.2. Condensation produced at the start-up and/or during use must not...

         4. 3.1.3. Appliances must be so designed and constructed as to minimise...

         5. 3.1.4. Appliances must be so constructed that water and inappropriate air...

         6. 3.1.5. In the event of a normal fluctuation of auxiliary energy,...

         7. 3.1.6. Abnormal fluctuation or failure of auxiliary energy or its restoration...

         8. 3.1.7. Appliances must be so designed and constructed as to obviate...

         9. 3.1.8. All pressurised parts of an appliance must withstand the mechanical...

         10. 3.1.9. Appliances must be so designed and constructed that failure of...

         11. 3.1.10. If an appliance is equipped with safety and controlling devices,...

         12. 3.1.11. All parts of appliances which are set or adjusted at...

         13. 3.1.12. Levers and other controlling and setting devices must be clearly...

         14. 3.2. Unburned gas release

         15. 3.2.1. Appliances must be so constructed that the gas leakage rate...

         16. 3.2.2. Appliances must be so constructed that gas release during ignition...

         17. 3.2.3. Appliances intended to be used in indoor spaces and rooms...

         18. 3.3. Ignition Appliances must be so constructed that, when used normally:...

         19. 3.4. Combustion

         20. 3.4.1. Appliances must be so constructed that, when used normally, flame...

         21. 3.4.2. Appliances must be so constructed that, when used normally, there...

         22. 3.4.3. Appliances connected to a flue for the dispersal of combustion...

         23. 3.4.4. Independent flueless domestic heating appliances and flueless instantaneous water heaters...

         24. 3.5. Rational use of energy Appliances must be so constructed as...

         25. 3.6. Temperatures

         26. 3.6.1. Parts of the appliance which are intended to be placed...

         27. 3.6.2. The surface temperature of knobs and levers of appliances intended...

         28. 3.6.3. The surface temperatures of external parts of appliances intended for...

         29. 3.7. Foodstuffs and water used for sanitary purposes Without prejudice to...

10. Explanatory Note