Gas Standards (Gasfitting and Consumer Gas Installations) Amendment Regulations (No. 2) 2007 (WA)
30 November 2007 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 5933 EN302*
Gas Standards Act 1972
These regulations are the Gas Standards (Gasfitting and
Consumer Gas Installations) Amendment Regulations
(No. 2) 2007. Gas Standards (Gasfitting and Consumer Gas
Installations) Amendment Regulations
(No. 2) 2007
Made by the Governor in Executive Council.
1. Citation
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2. Commencement
These regulations come into operation as follows:
(a) regulations I and 2 - on the day on which these regulations are published in the Gazette; (b) the rest of the regulations - on the day on which the Gas and Electricity Safety Legislation Amendment Act 2007 section 21 comes into operation. 3. The regulations amended
The amendments in these regulations are to the Gas Standards
(Gasfitting and Consumer Gas Installations) Regulations 1999.4. Regulation 3 amended
Regulation 3(1) is amended as follows:
(a) by deleting the definition of "Type A appliance"; (b)
the definition of "Type B appliance" is amended by deleting "Type A appliance" and inserting instead -
Type A gas appliance ".
5. Part 4A inserted
After regulation 31 the following Part is inserted -Part 4A - Appeals under section 13N(1)(b) of
the Act
31A. Terms used in this Part In this Part -
"appeal" means an appeal under section 13N(1)(b) ofthe Act;
"appellant" means a person aggrieved who commences an appeal; "technical review panel" means a panel mentioned in
section 13N(1)(b) of the Act.
31B. Technical review panel (1) If an appeal is made under section 13N(1)(b) of
the Act, the chief executive officer must convene a
technical review panel.(2) The technical review panel is to consist of
3 professional engineers who are competent to deal
with the matter the subject of the appeal appointed by
the chief executive officer from individuals nominated
by the President of the Western Australian Division of
The Institution of Engineers Australia.
30 November 2007 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 5935 (3) The chief executive officer must appoint one of the
members of the technical review panel to be the
chairperson.
(4) The chief executive officer may -
(a)
direct that the members of the technical review panel are to be paid remuneration; and
(b)
determine the amount of any such payments on the recommendation of the Minister for Public Sector Management.
(5) The chief executive officer must provide the technical
review panel with such support services as it may
reasonably require.31C. Procedure
(1) An appeal must be commenced by the appellant giving
the chief executive officer a notice of appeal.
(2) The notice of appeal must -
(a) be in writing; and (b) set Out the grounds of appeal; and (c)
set out any representations that the appellant wishes to make in support of the appeal.
(3) The notice of appeal must be given to the chief
executive officer within 30 days after the day on which
the appellant received written notice of the Director'sdetermination under section 13M(4) of the Act.
(4) The chief executive officer must give the technical
review panel the notice of appeal as soon as practicable
after the technical review panel is convened.
(5) Subject to subregulation (6), the technical review panel
(6) The technical review panel must give the Director - may determine its own procedure.
(a) a copy of the notice of appeal; and (b)
a reasonable opportunity to make submissions in relation to the appeal.
(7) The technical review panel must complete the review
by making a decision under section 13N(3) of the Act
within the period specified by the chief executiveofficer in writing.
(8) The technical review panel must give the appellant and
the Director written notice of its decision made under
section 13N(3) of the Act.
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6. Regulation 35 amended
Regulation 35(1) is amended by deleting "Type A appliance" and inserting instead -
Type A gas appliance ".
7. Regulation 42B inserted
After regulation 42A the following regulation is inserted in
Part 6-
42B. Type A gas appliance For the purposes of the definition of "Type A gas
appliance" in section 4 of the Act, gas appliances of the
class or type specified in the Table to this regulation
are prescribed.
Type A gas appliance
1. Domestic cooking appliances
2. Domestic space heating appliances having a maximum
hourly input rate of 150 megajoules3. Domestic refrigerators
4 Domestic outdoor barbecue grillers
Water heaters6. Swimming pool heaters
7.
Commercial catering equipment - boiling tables, open and closed top
8. Catalytic spaceheaters having a maximum hourly input
rate of 20 megajoules9. Domestic decorative gas log fires having a maximum
hourly input rate of 72 megajoules10. Incinerating toilets
11. Cooking, lighting or heating appliances that use LPG
and are designed for outdoor use 12.
Commercial catering equipment - salamanders and grillers
13.
Commercial catering equipment - solid griller plates, griddles
14.
Commercial catering equipment - barbecue grillers 15.
Commercial catering equipment - ovens 16.
Commercial catering equipment - boiling water units 17.
Commercial catering equipment - stock pots 18.
Commercial catering equipment - atmospheric steamers
19.
Commercial catering equipment - fryers 20.
Commercial catering equipment - food warmers, Bain-Marie
21. Commercial catering equipment -convection ovens
22. Laundry dryers
30 November 2007 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 5937 23. Overhead heaters
24. Industrial mobile air heaters
25. Indirect fired air heaters
26 Air conditioning units
8. Schedule 1 repealed
Schedule 1 is repealed.
9. Schedule 6 amended
Schedule 6 clause 501(1) is amended by deleting "A Type A appliance" and inserting instead —
" A Type A gas appliance ".
By Command of the Governor,
M. C. WAUCHOPE, Clerk of the Executive Council.
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