The Gas Safety (Management) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2023

This Statutory Instrument corrects an error in S.I. 2023/284 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.

Statutory Instruments

2023 No. 320

Health And Safety

The Gas Safety (Management) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2023

Made

at 2.05 p.m. on 13th March 2023

Laid before Parliament

at 4.30 p.m. on 13th March 2023

Coming into force

5th April 2023

The Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 15(1) and (2) of, and paragraph 1(1)(c) of Schedule 3 to, the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (“the Act”)(1).

These Regulations give effect without modifications to proposals submitted to the Secretary of State by the Health and Safety Executive under section 11(3) of the Act. Before submitting the proposals, the Health and Safety Executive consulted the Office for Nuclear Regulation(2) and such other bodies as appeared to be appropriate as required by section 50(3) of the Act.

Citation, commencement and extent

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Gas Safety (Management) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2023 and come into force on 5th April 2023.

(2) An amendment made by these Regulations has the same extent as the provision amended.

Amendment of regulation 1 of the Gas Safety (Management) (Amendment) Regulations 2023

2.  In regulation 1(2) of the Gas Safety (Management) (Amendment) Regulations 2023(3), for “Regulation 0” substitute “Regulation 14(2)(a)(v)”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

Mims Davies

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department for Work and Pensions

At 2.05 p.m. on 13th March 2023

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Gas Safety (Management) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/284) (“the 2023 Regulations”).

Regulation 1(2) of the 2023 Regulations provided for regulation 0 of those Regulations to come into force on 6th April 2025. However, regulation 1(2) should have referred to regulation 14(2)(a)(v) of the 2023 Regulations. These Regulations correct that error.

Regulation 14(2)(a)(v) of the 2023 Regulations revises the range within which the Wobbe Number of gas being conveyed in a network must fall for the purposes of the Gas Safety (Management) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/551).

A full impact assessment of the effect that the 2023 Regulations will have on the costs of business, the voluntary sector and the public sector is published alongside the instrument on legislation.gov.uk. Copies of the impact assessment are also available from the Energy Policy Team, HSE, Engagement and Policy Division, 2.2 Redgrave Court, Bootle, L20 7HS.

(1)

1974 c. 37. Section 11 was substituted by S.I. 2008/960 and amended by paragraph 2 of Schedule 12 to the Energy Act 2013 (c. 32) (“the 2013 Act”), section 1(4) of the Deregulation Act 2015 (c. 20) and paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 to the Building Safety Act 2022 (c. 30). Section 15 was amended by paragraph 6 of Schedule 15 to the Employment Protection Act 1975 (c. 71), by Schedule 12 to the Criminal Law Act 1977 (c. 45), by section 4 of the Offshore Safety Act 1992 (c. 15), by paragraph 2 of Schedule 3 to the Health and Safety (Offences) Act 2008 (c. 20), by paragraph 5 of Schedule 12 to the 2013 Act and by S.I. 2002/794, 2008/960 and 2015/1682. For the purposes of section 15, “specified” has the meaning given in subsection (10) of that section. There are amendments to Schedule 3 that are not relevant to these Regulations. For the purposes of Schedule 3, “specified” has the meaning given in paragraph 23(1) of that Schedule.

(2)

The Office for Nuclear Regulation was established by section 77 of the Energy Act 2013 (c. 32).

(3)

S.I. 2023/284.