{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-safety-installation-and-use-regulations-1998/regulation-30",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-safety-installation-and-use-regulations-1998/regulation-30.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/2451",
  "legislation_title": "The Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-safety-installation-and-use-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/30",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "30",
  "heading": "Room-sealed appliances",
  "text": "(1) No person shall install a gas appliance in a room used or intended to be used as a bathroom or a shower room unless it is a room-sealed appliance.\n(2) No person shall install a gas fire, other gas space heater or a gas water heater of more than 14 kilowatt gross heat input in a room used or intended to be used as sleeping accommodation unless the appliance is a room-sealed appliance.\n(3) No person shall install a gas fire, other gas space heater or a gas water heater of 14 kilowatt gross heat input or less in a room used or intended to be used as sleeping accommodation and no person shall install an instantaneous water heater unless (in each case)—\n(a) it is a room-sealed appliance; or\n(b) it incorporates a safety control designed to shut down the appliance before there is a build up of a dangerous quantity of the products of combustion in the room concerned.\n(4) The references in paragraphs (1) to (3) to a room used or intended to be used for the purpose therein referred to includes a reference to—\n(a) a cupboard or compartment within such a room; or\n(b) a cupboard, compartment or space adjacent to such a room if there is an air vent from the cupboard, compartment or space into such a room.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 30 in force at 3.10.1998, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/2451/regulation/30",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:17:52.447994+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."
}