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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-safety-installation-and-use-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2026/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2026/178",
  "legislation_title": "The Gas Safety (Installation and Use) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-safety-installation-and-use-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2026",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 (“the 2004 Regulations”).\nThe amendment made by regulation 2(2) has the effect that, subject to certain exceptions, the 2004 Regulations do not apply to certain gas compression installations which are downstream of isolation valves.\nThe amendment made by regulation 2(3) has the effect that a person who carries out an examination of a gas appliance under regulation 26(9)(c) of the 2004 Regulations must instead examine the combustion performance of the appliance to ensure it is operating safely if it is not reasonably practicable to examine its operating pressure or heat input.\nRegulation 2(4) amends landlords’ record keeping requirements regarding gas safety checks.\nRegulation 2(5) makes provision for determining the date by which the next gas safety check is due for a gas appliance or flue. It also gives landlords (in certain circumstances) the power to extend the date by which the next gas safety check is due for an appliance or a flue in order to align that date with the date by which the next safety check is due for another appliance or flue in the same premises.\nIn Great Britain the corresponding Regulations are the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/139). The Great Britain Health and Safety Executive has prepared a full impact assessment in relation to these Regulations. A copy of that assessment together with a Northern Ireland supplement prepared by the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland is held at the offices of that Executive at 83 Ladas Drive, Belfast, BT6 9FR, from where a copy may be obtained on request.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2026/178/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:22:28.935959+00:00"
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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