{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-safety-installation-and-use-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-safety-installation-and-use-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1997/194",
  "legislation_title": "Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-safety-installation-and-use-regulations-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Materials and workmanship",
  "text": "(1) A person shall not install a gas fitting unless every part of it is of good construction and sound material, of adequate strength and size to secure safety and of a type appropriate for the gas with which it is to be used.\n(2) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (1), a person shall not install in a building any pipe or pipe fitting for use in the supply of gas which is—\n(a) made of lead or lead alloy; or\n(b) made of a non-metallic substance unless it is—\n(i) a pipe connected to a readily movable gas appliance designed for use without a flue; or\n(ii) a pipe entering the building and that part of it within the building is placed inside a metallic sheath which is so constructed and installed as to prevent, so far as is reasonably practicable, the escape of gas into the building if the pipe should fail.\n(3) A person shall not carry out any work in relation to a gas fitting or gas storage vessel otherwise than in accordance with appropriate standards and in such a way as to prevent danger to any person.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 in operation at 12.5.1997, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/1997/194",
      "affecting_title": "Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/194/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:29:12.947774+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."
}