Gas Standards Act 1972 (WA)

Western Australia

Western Australia

Gas Standards Act 1972

An Act to regulate the standards of quality, pressure, purity and safety of gas supplied and the standards and safety of gas installations and gas appliances; to provide for the supervision and control of persons concerned in, and to regulate the practice of, gasfitting; to repeal the Gas (Standards) Act 1947 1, and for incidental and other purposes.

[Long title amended: No. 87 of 1979 s. 3; No. 63 of 1985 s. 3.]

This Act may be cited as the Gas Standards Act 1972.

This Act shall come into operation on a date to be fixed by proclamation.

[3. Omitted under the Reprints Act 1984 s. 7(4)(f).]

In this Act unless the contrary intention appears —

commercial information means —

• (a)

  any knowledge or information relating to technology, marketing or energy used in a person’s business and that might reasonably be expected adversely to affect the business or interests of that person if disclosed to another person; or

• (b)

  other information that has commercial value;

consumer means any person (not being an undertaker) to whom gas is supplied by an undertaker or a pipeline licensee;

Director means the Director of Energy Safety referred to in section 5 of the Energy Coordination Act 1994;

gas means any gas or mixture of gases intended for use as fuel for gas appliances or for use in any chemical process;

gas appliance means any appliance that consumes gas as fuel;

gas installation means any appliance, pipes, fittings or other apparatus installed or to be installed for or for purposes incidental to the conveyance, control, supply or use of gas;

inspector means a person designated under section 12 of the Energy Coordination Act 1994;

pipeline licensee means the holder of a pipeline licence granted under the Petroleum Pipelines Act 1969;

supply, in relation to gas, includes to have in possession with intent to supply any consumer or consumers;

Type A gas appliance means a gas appliance of a prescribed class or type;

Type B gas appliance means a gas appliance that has a maximum hourly input rate exceeding 10 megajoules that is neither a Type A gas appliance nor a gas‑fuelled engine that —

• (a)

  is mounted in or on any vehicle, craft or portable appliance; and

• (b)

  is supplied by fuel from a cylinder or tank mounted on or in the vehicle, craft or portable appliance;

undertaker means any licensee within the meaning of the Energy Coordination Act 1994 and any local government, regional local government, body corporate, firm or person making or supplying gas other than solely for its or his own use.

[Section 4 amended: No. 87 of 1979 s. 4; No. 63 of 1985 s. 4; No. 89 of 1994 s. 86; No. 14 of 1996 s. 4; No. 58…