If you are a Landlord (or Managing Agent) and if you are responsible for gas plant and equipment (such as a gas boiler or a gas fire), you should have the equipment serviced and maintained by a competent person (Gas Safe). Further to this, you should arrange for the equipment to be checked and for a Gas Certificate to be issued. A copy of this Gas Certificate should be made available on request.
Poorly maintained gas appliances can cause carbon monoxide poisoning, which can kill and can also cause serious long-term health problems. Symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning include nausea, dizziness, tiredness, vomiting, collapse and loss of consciousness.
Recent prosecution involving the lack of a gas certificate
A Walsall landlord has been sentenced for failing to provide a gas safety certificate.The Health and Safety Executive prosecuted the landlord following a complaint from a tenant, who rents a house at Raleigh Street, Walsall from him.
The Magistrates heard that the boiler was replaced in October this year, despite having broken down in January. Until recently the landlord did not have a landlord’s gas safety certificate for the appliances in the property, despite having being issued with an Improvement Notice from the HSE in March requiring him to provide the certificate by May. The court also heard that when the new boiler was installed, the gas engineer condemned the cooker in the property as dangerous and isolated it. The Landlord was fined £2000 and ordered to pay costs of £3000.
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This is how a landlord gas safety certificate should look
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