Regulation 35 Maintenance
It shall be the duty of every employer or self-employed person to ensure that any gas appliance or installation pipework installed at any place of work under his control is maintained in a safe condition so as to prevent risk of injury to any person.
It shall be the duty of any person who owns a gas appliance or any installation pipework installed in premises or any part of premises let by him to ensure that such appliance or installation pipework is maintained in a safe condition so as to prevent risk of injury to any person.
Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (2) above, a person subject to a duty imposed by that paragraph shall—
ensure that each appliance to which that duty extends is checked for safety at intervals of not more than 12 months by, or by an employee of, a member of a class of persons approved for the time being by the Health and Safety Executive for the purposes of regulation 3(3) of these Regulations; and
keep a record in respect of the appliances to which that duty extends of the dates of inspection, the defects identified and any remedial action taken.
The record referred to in paragraph (3)(b) above shall be made available upon request and upon reasonable notice for the inspection of any tenant who may be affected by the use or operation of any appliance to which the record relates.