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.

2023 No. 320

Health And Safety

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

Made

Laid before Parliament

Coming into force

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 Regulation2 and such other bodies as appeared to be appropriate as required by section 50(3) of the Act.

Citation, commencement and extent1

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 20232

In regulation 1(2) of the Gas Safety (Management) (Amendment) Regulations 20233, for “Regulation 0” substitute “Regulation 14(2)(a)(v)”.

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

Mims DaviesParliamentary Under Secretary of StateDepartment for Work and Pensions
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.