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The Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998
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- 1998 No. 2451
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- Regulation 30
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Room-sealed appliances
30.—(1) No person shall install a gas appliance in a room used or intended to be used as a bathroom or a shower room unless it is a room-sealed appliance.
(2) No person shall install a gas fire, other gas space heater or a gas water heater of more than 14 kilowatt gross heat input in a room used or intended to be used as sleeping accommodation unless the appliance is a room-sealed appliance.
(3) No person shall install a gas fire, other gas space heater or a gas water heater of 14 kilowatt gross heat input or less in a room used or intended to be used as sleeping accommodation and no person shall install an instantaneous water heater unless (in each case)—
(a)it is a room-sealed appliance; or
(b)it incorporates a safety control designed to shut down the appliance before there is a build up of a dangerous quantity of the products of combustion in the room concerned.
(4) The references in paragraphs (1) to (3) to a room used or intended to be used for the purpose therein referred to includes a reference to—
(a)a cupboard or compartment within such a room; or
(b)a cupboard, compartment or space adjacent to such a room if there is an air vent from the cupboard, compartment or space into such a room.
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