"Peter Wiley" wrote in message
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In article , Donals Dilemma
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On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 23:02:33 -0000, "Donal"

Right. Basically cylinders fall into 2 categories. 9kg & less, you can
own and get filled anywhere without paperwork, as Oz says, long as
they're in test.

I think that you have both cleared up my confusion.

Here, we take an empty gas cylinder to the shop and exchange it for a full
one. So the legal responsibilities for the cylinder lie with the gas
supplier. Every time that we get a refill, we actually get a different
cylinder.

I assume that you keep the same cylinder through it's life???



The big cylinders - 45kg - are used for
domestic/industrial supply of LPG and if they're for a fixed
installation (house for example) the pipework has to be done by a
licensed gasfitter and it's illegal for the supplier to rent bottles to
you if you don't have the paperwork/compliance plate.

Here, you could do your own pipework. It is now illegal for a non-approved
person to carry out installations for money.



It's also illegal
to do your own gas pipework for reticulated town gas, BTW, and for good
reason - lotta idiots and the people they kill will probably not
include themselves, unfortunately.

If you did your *own* pipework, then any resulting fatalaties would probably
only include you, or your immediate family. This would have nothing to do
with the government(IMHO).


Regards

Donal
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