Hong Kong Regulations

GAS SAFETY (INSTALLATION AND USE) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 27

Room-sealed gas water heaters

(1) Subject to subregulation (3), where suitable provision has been made for
the installation of a room-sealed gas water heater to serve a bathroom in any
premises, irrespective of whether such provision is made in the bathroom or in
any other part of the premises, no person shall install a gas water heater in
the premises to serve that bathroom unless the heater is a
room-sealed gas water heater.

(2) Where suitable provision has been made for the installation of a
room-sealed gas water heater to serve a bathroom in any premises, irrespective
of whether such provision is made in the bathroom or in any other part of the
premises, no person shall install a room-sealed gas  water heater in the
premises to serve that bathroom except by using that suitable provision.

(3) With effect on and from 1 January 1994, no person shall install a gas
water heater other than a room-sealed gas water heater in any bathroom in any
premises except that an open-flued (fanned draught) gas water heater may be
installed to replace an open-flued (fanned draught) gas water heater which-

   (a)  is in a bathroom in any premises; and

   (b)  was installed-

        (i)    before that date; or

        (ii)   on or after that date in pursuance of this regulation.

(4) For the purposes of this regulation, "room-sealed gas water
heater" (密封式氣體熱水爐) and " suitable provision" (適當設施)
shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them by regulation 35A(4) of
the Building  (Planning) Regulations ( Cap 123 sub. leg. F). (Enacted 1990)

"room-sealed gas water heater" (密封式氣體熱水爐) and "suitable
provision" (適當設施)