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5. Actions Required by Installers


Safety Obligations: Gas Appliances and Fittings

Energy Safety
[ Last Updated 13 September 2007 ]


Installers have an obligation to be satisfied that any gas appliance or fitting they install complies with safety requirements of Regulations 13 and 14 of the Regulations. Regulation 13 requires that "...every person who manufactures, imports, sells or offers for sale, hires out, leases out, or installs a gas appliance or fitting ... must take all practicable steps to ensure that the gas appliance or fitting is safe in all reasonably foreseeable circumstances".

Installers must:

  1. Ensure that a supplier declaration is on the ESS website,4 or that you have received a copy of the supplier declaration from the supplier, before installing any appliance or specified fitting5
    Note: At the time of writing of this document (November 2006) there are no specified fittings.
  2. Ensure the appliance or fitting is correctly installed and commissioned in accordance with instructions and NZS 5261, and that the installation is certified if required under the Regulations.

For any appliance or fitting imported or manufactured by a person for their own use (and which therefore does not have a Supplier Declaration), the installer must record that fact on the Gasfitting certificate, and certify that the appliance or fitting as installed is safe (refer section 2.2).

Installers are also encouraged to report to the Energy Safety Service (email: appliances@ess.govt.nz) any instances of apparent non-compliance of any appliances or fittings on the market.

4 Whilst the obligation to be satisfied that a Supplier Declaration is in place can be fulfilled by checking the website, this may not always be convenient. Obtaining a printout from the website, that the installer can be confident in, should be sufficient in most situations.

5 Appliances supplied from the NZ importer or NZ manufacturer before 18 November 2002 are not required to have a declaration.


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