There are LPG safety licences for the giving of directions by the CER (\u2018\u2018improvement plans\u2019\u2019) and for the serving of \u2018\u2018improvement notices\u2019\u2019 on an undertaking where an undertaking has failed to comply with a direction of the CER.<\/p>\n
There are \u2018prohibition notices\u2019 prohibiting the carrying out of certain activities where the CER is of the view that such activities pose a substantial risk to public safety and for appeal to the High Court against such notice. It is an offence to fail to comply with a prohibition notice.<\/p>\n
The CER may apply to the High Court for an order restraining or prohibiting activities of a gas or LPG undertaking where the activities of a gas or LPG undertaking pose a risk to the safety of human life, gas or LPG infrastructure or property.<\/p>\n
Where a natural gas or LPG undertaking is not in compliance with the CER (CRU) safety requirements CER (CRU) may serve an improvement notice and prohibition notice. If there is a danger to life or the safety of infrastructure, an application may be made to the High Court prohibiting the activities of the LPG or gas undertaking until the specified measures are undertaken to remove the risk.<\/p>\n
CER (CRU) may make regulations for reporting and investigating LPG incidents involving death, injury, or damage to property resulting from abuse and misuse leakage combustion explosion of LPG. CER (CRU)may apply annual levy expenses on holders of LPG safety licences.<\/p>\n
Liquefied Petroleum Gas Safety (Liquefied Petroleum Gas Incident) Regulations 2014 made by the CER (CRU) relate to reporting and investigation of incidents with LPG. They define classes of incidents and reporting obligations arising.<\/p>\n
Liquefied Petroleum Gas Safety (Liquefied Petroleum Gas Incident Reporting and Investigation) Regulations 2014 require reporting of incidents by LPG undertakings affecting domestic or commercial final users which must be reported by LPG undertakings. This includes entities which purchase or import LPG or make it available to individual domestic or commercial users by way of cylinder full tank or distribution via pipes network.<\/p>\n\n
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Gas Safety The 2006 Act provides provisions for natural gas safety. This includes regulation and safety promotion by the CER (CRU), having consulted with the National Standards Authority of Ireland regarding standards. It was to establish and implement a national gas safety framework and, for this purpose, may direct gas undertakings to advise the public […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[196],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18831"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18831"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31538,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18831\/revisions\/31538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}