Gas Standards (Gasfitting and Consumer Gas Installations) Regulations 1999
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Division 1 — Interpretation
- Terms used
In this Schedule, unless the contrary intention appears —
approved means approved by —
(a) the Director; or
(b) a person recognized by the Director as a competent authority for that purpose;
bedroom means any room used or intended to be used as sleeping quarters;
flame safeguard system means a system designed to detect flame failure and shut off the flow of gas when flame failure is detected;
prescribed pressure means —
(a) 0.75 kPa, in relation to a gas installation that uses or is to use tempered LPG (i.e. a mixture of LPG and air having a gross heating value of more than 23.5 MJ/m3 but not more than 27.3 MJ/m3);
(b) 1.25 kPa, in relation to a gas installation that uses or is to use natural gas or simulated natural gas (i.e. a mixture of LPG and air having a gross heating value of more than 40 MJ/m3 but not more than 51 MJ/m3);
(c) 2.75 kPa, in relation to a gas installation that uses or is to use LPG.
[Division 2: r. 201 deleted: Gazette 21 Apr 2006 p. 1578;.
r. 202-208 deleted: Gazette 2 Oct 2018 p. 3784.]