Hong Kong Regulations

GAS SAFETY (INSTALLATION AND USE) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 23

Gas appliances-safety precautions

PART V

GAS APPLIANCES

(1) No person shall install a gas appliance unless-

   (a)  such appliance and the gas fittings and other works for the supply of
        gas to be used in connection with it;

   (b)  the means of removal of the products of combustion from such
        appliance;

   (c)  the availability of sufficient permanent supply of air for such
        appliance for proper combustion;

   (d)  the means of ventilation to the room or internal space in which such
        appliance is installed; and

   (e)  the general conditions of installation, including the stability of
        such appliance and its connection to any gas fitting, are such as to
        ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that such appliance can
        be used without constituting a danger to any person or property.

(2) No person shall connect a domestic gas appliance which has a flue to a
piped gas supply system except by a permanently fixed rigid pipe.

(3) No person carrying out the installation of a gas appliance shall leave it
connected to a supply of gas unless such appliance can be used safely.

(4) No person shall install a gas appliance without there being at the inlet
to it means of shutting off the supply of gas to such appliance unless the
provision of such means is not reasonably practicable.

(5) No person shall carry out work in relation to a gas appliance which bears
an indication that it conforms to a type approved by any person as complying
with safety standards in such a manner that such appliance ceases to comply
with such standards.

(6) No person carrying out work in relation to a gas appliance which bears an
indication referred to in subregulation (5) shall remove or deface the
indication.

(7) Where a person services a domestic gas appliance, he shall immediately
thereafter examine-

   (a)  the effectiveness of any flue;

   (b)  the supply of combustion air;

   (c)  its operating pressure; and

   (d)  its safe functioning, and forthwith notify the responsible person for
        the premises in which such appliance is installed of any defect.
        (Enacted 1990)