To be registered with CORGI, (which is approved by the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) to maintain a register of gas installers and gas businesses & to monitor the competency of those installers/businesses to undertake gas work safely and to investigate complaints against registered installers).

All gas fitting operatives are also required to be able to demonstrate they are competent to undertake gas work safely normally by being assessed against nationally accepted standards.

Have duties to ensure that the gas appliances and flues they provide for tenants use are maintained in a safe condition at all times.

And checked for safety each year by a CORGI registered installer.

And a copy of the check record is provided to the tenant.

Ensure installation pipe work, appliances and flues provided for tenants are maintained in a safe condition

Ensure an annual safety check is carried out on each appliance and/or flue that you provide for tenants use

Ensure an annual safety check is carried out on each appliance and/or flue that you provide for tenants use

Ensure maintenance and annual safety checks are carried out by a CORGI registered installer

Keep a record of each safety check for 2 years

Issue a copy of the safety check to each existing tenant within 28 days of check being completed and to any new tenant before they move in

Ensure all gas equipment (including any appliance left by a previous tenant) is safe or otherwise removed before re-letting

If a managing agent is used to help the landlord in meeting their duties, make sure that the management contract clearly specifies who is to make arrangements for maintenance and safety checks to be carried out and for keeping records. However, the landlord maintains overall responsibility for ensuring duties are met, irrespective of whether a managing agent is employed

Ensure that anyone carrying out work on gas appliances/fittings and/or flues provided for tenants use has the required competence and that only CORGI registered installers are used

You should allow your landlord access to the property to carry out maintenance or safety checks on appliances and/or flues that they provide for your use

That gas appliances and/or flues you own should be regularly maintained and a safety check carried out at least once every 12 months by a CORGI registered installer

That, if there is any doubt about the safety of gas equipment it should be turned off and not touched until checked by a competent installer, and remedial action taken as necessary

Ensure that the management contract clearly specifies who is to make arrangements for maintenance and safety checks on gas equipment and for keeping associated records

Where specified by the management contract ensure gas appliances and/or flues are serviced at least once every 12 months or at any other time if there is a safety doubt

Ensure that maintenance and safety checks on gas appliances/fittings and/or flues provided for tenants use are only carried out by a CORGI registered installer

That all gas appliances and/or flues should be regularly maintained and a safety check carried out annually or at any other time if there is a safety doubt by a CORGI registered installer.