79DInterference with pipeline, gas installation or meter assembly

79D Interference with pipeline, gas installation or meter assembly

S. 79D(1) amended by No. 13/2025 s. 76.

(1) A person must not knowingly, recklessly or negligently break, injure, open or tamper with any pipeline, gas installation or meter assembly.

(2) This section does not apply to any person lawfully carrying out gas work in respect of the pipeline, gas installation or meter assembly.

S. 79DA inserted by No. 35/2013 s. 15.

79DA Safety of gas installations—building work

S. 79DA(1) amended by No. 13/2025 s. 77.

(1) A person must not carry out building work at a premises which the person knows or should reasonably be expected to know will make—

(a) a gas installation at the premises unsafe; or

(b) a building at the premises unsafe if that premises is supplied with gas.

building work has the same meaning as in the Building Act 1993.

Pt 3A (Heading and ss 79E, 79F) inserted by No. 91/2000 s. 30.