Prescribed standard installation

A Prescribed Standard Gas Installation is an installation:

• in a *class 2 or *class 4 building exceeding 3 storeys; and/or
• with more than one meter where the meters are located in a common area

*within the meaning of the Building Code of Australia

Class 2: a building that includes more than one dwelling, each of which is generally solely occupied by one or more people to the exclusion of others

Class 4: applies to some types of accommodation within a *class 5-9 building (i.e. caretakers flat within a building or accommodation over or otherwise connected to a shop)

The gas-fitter must complete the following

• Application for acceptance before commissioning
• installations marked by an asterix (*) on the gas-fitting notice require an APPLICATION to the Director of Gas Safety for ACCEPTANCE before commissioning.
• must complete the gas consumers details, details of qualified gas-fitter, notification of gas installation and details of work undertaken sections.
• forward the yellow copy of the gas-fitting notice with the appropriate APPLICATION for ACCEPTANCE to Workplace Standards Tasmania a minimum of fourteen days prior to commissioning of the installation.
• Do not sign the statement or certificate of compliance.

Statement of compliance

• must ensure that the work on the accepted installation has been carried out in accordance with any relevant standard or condition specified in the ACCEPTANCE
• the signed white copy of the Statement of Compliance to the Director of Gas Safety.
• within 48 hours of undertaking the work provide the green copy to the person on whose behalf the work was carried out or the owner of the gas installation
• the blue copy to the gas supplier.
• must keep the pink copy for at least 5 years

Forms:

 Application for acceptance complex/prescribed installation (TBA003)

Statement Of Compliance - Type B Gas Appliance (TBA004)

 Sample of a Gas-fitting notice (GFN001)

 Installation approval and gas-fitting notice requirements

 Guideline for the use of trench less techniques when installing gas consumer piping systems (IS151)

 Conditions for accepting complex gas installations that cross multiple occupied sites (IS152)