FOI Landlord duties under (Gas safety laws)
Received: 4 April 2025
My questions are relating to the Authority as a landlord and its' duties under Gas Safety Installation and Use Regulations 1998 (GSIUR) which I believe are covered by section 36 of those regulations. The questions are specifically relating to only what you as an authority have a legal duty to and what the tax payer/residents therefore has to duty to pay for. Thank you. Section 36 duties of landlords requires landlords to carry out an annual check of all appliances owned by the landlord and suppllied for use by tenants and a maintenance of pipes etc which has no prescribed time limit but it is recommenced, but not mandatory, to carry out the wider duty to gas tighten and checking the pipes at the same time as the annual appliance checks on landlord supplied appliances. Under the wider duty the landlord also has responsibly to piper or flues that connect any tenants cookers or other appliances they own to the gas supply but not to the tenants appliance itself. So my question are based on these duties please. In law past any pipes/flues connecting tenant appliances to the gas system do you consider you have any legal duty to any appliances that tenant can remove from the property when carrying out either the section 36 (2) or (3) duties under GSIUR? If so what is that legal duty please and do you hold how you came to that conclusion that it was a legal duty please?
Outcome / Documents
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