British Gas gas safe certificate

Landlord Discussion
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I need advice regarding a failed gas safety certificate on a boiler and the hob on my rental property.

I have Home Serve cover and I organised a British Gas engineer carry out a gas safe on a property which unfortunately failed.

I have since had the boiler repaired and the hob replaced within 28 days of the gas-safe inspection. I spoke to the British Gas representative request a re-test. They informed me that if they visit the property again, they will charge me again for a new gas safety certificate. However, they advised I do not need to get another gas safety certificate as we can marry all the documents together to confirm the work has been done.

I have looked online to check if this is the correct advice but I can’t find anything to confirm. Does the marrying of the certificates confirm that the appliances are safe legally for another year and I do not need another gas-safe certificate?

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If you don’t have in your hands a valid gas safe certificate then get one.

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Good Practice:
You are able to book a gas safety certificate up to 2 months before the current certificate runs out and preserve the anniversary date of the current certificate. This serves to give you time to remedy a failure and book a re-test before the current cert runs out. It works in the same way as an MOT certificate for a car.

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The newly issued failed gas safe cert supersedes the unexpired one, however how can this be proven i wonder.

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Thanks. That is my view as well.

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Thanks for the response.
British Gas said they will charge for a re-test but informed me that such a re-test is not required. I just need to keep all the repair documents along with the original failed gas safe certificate in one place. I wanted to know if what they told me is correct.

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It is possible that I may have mis-interpreted the purpose for the allowance for booking a CP12 two months early. If I am wrong in my assumption any failed CP12 would leave the landlord without a valid certificate with all the implications to serving a section 21.

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I think that the replacement of the gas hob may require a building regulations compliance certificate. If so, then you need to either give the tenant a copy of that or commission a new gas safety cert and serve that instead. This follows the judgement in the case of Van-Herpen v Green from December 2023, which you can read about online.

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