Gas Standards (Gasfitting and Consumer Gas Installations) Regulations 1999
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Division 7 — Caravans
- Application of this Division
(1) This Division applies to a consumer’s gas installation that is on or in a caravan but not to any other consumer’s gas installation.
(2) This Division applies in addition to any relevant requirements in AS/NZS 5601.
[Clause 701 amended: Gazette 19 Dec 2000 p. 7281; 31 Jan 2003 p. 281; 21 Apr 2006 p. 1580; 18 Jan 2011 p. 147.]
[702. Deleted: Gazette 26 Nov 2010 p. 5933.]
- Location of appliances
(1) An appliance in a caravan must be so located that in the event of a fire, the appliance would not obstruct the exit of a person from any part of the caravan.
(2) If an appliance that requires gas to be supplied to it at more than the prescribed pressure is installed in a caravan in accordance with clause 704, the appliance must not be located in a cupboard or other enclosed compartment.
(3) Equipment and appliances operating at above prescribed pressure must not be permanently installed in a caravan unless specifically approved.
(4) A portable gas appliance in a caravan must be securely packed or fixed by temporary fastenings at all times that the caravan is in motion.
- Pressure
(1) The pressure to an appliance installed in a caravan and in a fitting line after the pressure regulator must not exceed the prescribed pressure.
(2) Subclause (1) does not apply in respect of —
[(a) deleted]
(b) an appliance that depends on a pressure exceeding the prescribed pressure for its proper operation, if —
(i) the appliance is installed in a mobile workshop that is not used for accommodation; and
(ii) the pressure is limited by a regulator mounted outside the caravan to not more than the minimum pressure required by the appliance for its proper operation, being a pressure of not more than 140 kPa.
(3) If in accordance with subclause (2) gas is used at a pressure exceeding the prescribed pressure it must be carried in the vapour phase.
[Clause 704 amended: Gazette 26 Nov 2010 p. 5933.]
- Warnings
(1) The consumer instruction sheet to be displayed near an appliance as provided in AS/NZS 5601, must be —
(a) legible and clear; and
(b) in a permanent form measuring not less than 200 mm by 200 mm; and
(c) kept in a conspicuous position adjacent to an appliance, or if there is more than one appliance, adjacent to one of the appliances.
(2) There must be kept in a conspicuous position adjacent to the fuel tank filler of a self‑propelled caravan in which there is installed any appliance, a legible and clear warning in a permanent form setting out the following —