Gas Safe Installation and Use Regulations 1998


Unregistered gas installer fined after failing HSE inspection

A plumber who was suspected of having undertaken dangerous gas work while unqualified to do so, was fined for failing to answer questions put to him by a Health and Safety Executive Inspector. Read More

Contractor given suspended sentence after carrying out illegal gas work

A self-employed contractor has been given a suspended sentence and community service after undertaking gas work on a property whilst not being gas safe registered. Read More

Fraudulent gas installer prosecuted for illegal gas work

A gas installer has been fined after repeatedly carrying out gas work whilst falsely claiming to be gas safe registered. Read More

Estate management partnership and tenant fined for gas safety breaches

Burghill Farms, a partnership trading as Dalhousie Estates, and Mr Piers Le Cheminant have been fined following an incident where one of the occupants of a holiday cottage was found collapsed in a bathroom heated by a portable cabinet propane gas heater. Read More

Unregistered gas fitter sentenced after carrying out illegal work

A self-employed gas fitter has received a 15-month community order after carrying out gas work without being Gas Safe registered. Read More

Unregistered gas fitter fined for dangerous installation of range cooker at care home

A fitter has been fined following a gas leak from a newly fitted range installed in a North Devon residential care home. Read More

Prison sentence for builder that undertook illegal gas work

A self-employed fitter has been jailed after carrying out gas work at a residential address whilst he was not competent to do so, leaving a gas boiler in an ‘at risk’ condition. Read More

Unregistered gas engineer sentenced after multiple breaches

A self-employed gas engineer has been sentenced after carrying out illegal gas work and breaching a HSE Prohibition Notice. Read More

Unregistered gas engineer sentenced for illegal gas work

An unregistered gas fitter has been sentenced after putting lives at risk by carrying out illegal gas work at several properties. Read More

Unregistered gas fitter sentenced for illegal gas work

A self-employed plumber has been sentenced after carrying out illegal and unsafe gas work. Read More



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