On 08/05/15 13:43, whisky-dave wrote:

That is linking to it.
3.--(1) No person shall carry out any work in relation to a gas fitting or gas storage vessel unless he is competent to do so.
As I said and asked "he" means a women can not do the job, and there's no indication of how a person is deemed to be "competent to do so".

That's just standard phrasing - it does not preclude women.

And correct, there is no definition of "competant".


How would an employer know whether an individual can do the specific task ?
And this individual refered to as a person, it mentions nothing about whether you pay them or whether they are your a brother or uncle or friend.

(2) The employer of any person carrying out such work for that employer, every other employer and self-employed person who has control to any extent of such work and every employer and self-employed person who has required such work to be carried out at any place of work under his control shall ensure that paragraph (1) above is complied with in relation to such work.

(3) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraphs (1) and (2) above and subject to paragraph (4) below, no employer shall allow any of his employees to carry out any work in relation to a gas fitting or service pipework and no self-employed person shall carry out any such work, unless the employer or self-employed person, as the case may be, is a member of a class of persons approved for the time being by the Health and Safety Executive for the purposes of this paragraph.

Of course if you believe that the word employ means you have to pay someone then maybe yuor right but in English Employ doesn't just mean that.

It does in this case.


If what you say is true then why would there be any legislation on this you can just say, anyone that thinks they can do the work is allowed to do so.
Or anytone can do gas work provided they don;t charge you fro doing it and you don't reward them in any other way.
This would enable charities to take on such work.


Quite possibly possible but none would because no charity would want to
do so.