{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-safety-installation-and-use-regulations-1994/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-safety-installation-and-use-regulations-1994/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/1886",
  "legislation_title": "The Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-safety-installation-and-use-regulations-1994",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Existing gas fittings",
  "text": "(1) No person shall make any alteration to any premises which would adversely affect the safety of a gas fitting or a gas storage vessel in such a manner that, if the fitting or the vessel had been installed after the alteration, there would have been a contravention of, or failure to comply with, these Regulations.\n(2) No person shall do anything which would affect a gas fitting or any flue or means of ventilation used in connection with the fitting in such a manner that the subsequent use of the fitting might constitute a danger to any person.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/550",
      "affecting_title": "The Gas Safety (Installation and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 1996"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/1886/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:29:21.751818+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}