Legal requirements for maintenance

Although maintenance cannot generally be enforced by a local authority, it can be encouraged by regular (annual or bi-annual) reminders to the site 

If an incident such as an explosion did occur because of lack of maintenance of gas protection measures in a commercial or similar building, then it is likely that the owner and/or operator would be prosecuted under Health and Safety legislation. A similar scenario would be where the owner of a gas barrier did not maintain it and this caused gas migration to another site and resulted in an incident such as an explosion. 

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