Gas Safety (Gas Installation) Amendment Regulations 2022 (Vic)

Gas Safety (Gas Installation) Amendment Regulations 2022

S.R. No. 64/2022

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

Regulation  Page

1Objective

2Authorising provision

3Commencement

4Definitions

5New Division 7 of Part 3 inserted

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Endnotes

STATUTORY RULES 2022

S.R. No. 64/2022

Gas Safety Act 1997

Gas Safety (Gas Installation) Amendment Regulations 2022

The Lieutenant-Governor as the Governor's deputy, with the advice of the Executive Council, makes the following Regulations:

Dated: 9 August 2022

Responsible Minister:

LILY D'AMBROSIO
Minister for Energy

ALEXANDRA DEBELJAKOVIC

Clerk of the Executive Council

1Objective

The objective of these Regulations is to amend the Gas Safety (Gas Installation) Regulations 2018 to provide that a person must not carry out gasfitting work that installs or locates an open-flued gas space heater in premises, except in certain circumstances.

2Authorising provision

These Regulations are made under section 118 of the Gas Safety Act 1997.

3Commencement

These Regulations come into operation on 10 August 2022.

4Definitions

In regulation 5 of the Gas Safety (Gas Installation) Regulations 2018[1] insert the following definitions—

'AS/NZS 5263.1.3 means AS/NZS 5263.1.3, "Gas appliances—Part 1.3: Gas space heating appliances" as published or amended from time to time by Standards Australia and Standards New Zealand;

flue system means a passage through which combustion products or flue gases are discharged and includes a chimney;

negative pressure means the circumstance where the absolute static pressure within a building is lower than the atmospheric pressure outside the building;

test room means a room that—

(a)provides no greater than 10 air changes per hour at a differential pressure of 50 Pascals; and

(b)is located in a laboratory that is accredited by a signatory to the International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC) to test an open‑flued gas space heater to AS/NZS 5263.1.3 as published or amended from time to time by Standards Australia and Standards New Zealand.'.

5New Division 7 of Part 3 inserted

After Division 6 of Part 3 of the Gas Safety (Gas Installation) Regulations 2018 insert—

"Division 7—Special requirements for open-flued gas space heaters

25AInstallation of open-flued gas space heaters

(1)For the purposes of section 72(1) of the Act, it is a prescribed requirement that a person carrying out gasfitting work must not install or locate for use, except in accordance with the requirements set out in subregulation (2), an appliance (an open-flued gas space heater)—

(a)that has the primary function of heating an indoor room or space in which it is installed, through either radiant or convective heat, or a combination of both; and

(b)that is designed to be connected to a flue system; and

(c)that draws combustion air from the room or space in which it is installed.

(2)A person may carry out gasfitting work to install or locate for use an open-flued gas space heater if—

(a)the appliance has a fan-assisted combustion system; and

(b)the burner of the appliance only operates while the combustion fan is functioning; and

(c)the appliance incorporates a fail-safe interlock that—

(i)will shut down the appliance within 15 minutes if spillage of combustion products occurs under any negative pressure conditions; and

(ii)in the event of a shut down referred to in subparagraph (i)—

(A)will not allow the appliance to automatically reset; and

(B)will require the use of a tool for access to manually reset the appliance; and

(d)the carbon monoxide/carbon dioxide ratio of the combustion products of the appliance does not exceed 0⋅02 after 10 minutes operation under any operating conditions; and

(e)when the operation of the fail-safe interlock is tested in a test room under negative pressure conditions the concentration of carbon monoxide in the combustion products from the test room extraction system does not exceed 90 parts per million (ppm).

(3)For the purposes of subregulation (1)(a), an appliance has the primary function of heating an indoor room or space if the appliance complies with the thermal efficiency requirements of AS/NZS 5263.1.3.

(4)This regulation does not prevent a person from carrying out gasfitting work to service, repair or test an existing open-flued gas space heater installed in any premises.".

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Endnotes

[1] Reg. 4: S.R. No. 140/2018.

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Table of Applied, Adopted or Incorporated Matter

The following table of applied, adopted or incorporated matter is included in accordance with the requirements of regulation 5 of the Subordinate Legislation Regulations 2014.

Statutory rule provision	Title of applied, adopted or incorporated document	Matter in applied, adopted or incorporated document
Regulation 4 which inserts the definition of AS/NZS 5263.1.3 into regulation 5 of the Gas Safety (Gas Installation) Regulations 2018	Australian/New Zealand Standard AS/NZS 5263.1.3, "Gas appliances—Part 1.3: Gas space heating appliances" published on 5 February 2021 incorporating amendment No. 1 (12 November 2021) by Standards Australia and Standards New Zealand	The whole