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make it an offence to sell controlled building services to unqualified persons.

Submitted on Tuesday 18th April 2017

Rejected on Tuesday 25th April 2017

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)

Petition Action

make it an offence to sell controlled building services to unqualified persons.

Petition Details

Gas, oil and solid fuel heating boilers, open-vented and unvented hot water cylinders and oil storage tanks are available without proof of the purchaser having any knowledge or understanding of safety and environmental regulatory control measures deemed necessary to achieve safe installations.

Additional Information

Unqualified persons purchasing controlled services do not have the necessary knowledge nor understanding to be able to purchase the correct type of equipment to enable a safe and legally compliant installation to be created.
Unqualified persons purchase drivers are perceived cost savings not the creation of safe installations.
Unqualified person purchases of Controlled Services leads to and encourages unqualified installation of same resulting in unsafe situations.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

Petitions need to call on the Government or Parliament to take a specific action. We're not sure what you mean by 'controlled building services'.

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