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Suspended sentence and £12,700 penalty for carrying out illegal gas work on boilers (17 February 2017)

Date: 17/02/2017
Duncan Lewis, Legal News Solicitors, Suspended sentence and £12,700 penalty for carrying out illegal gas work on boilers

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has prosecuted an unregistered gas worker who carried out work on a number of boilers.

Philip Locke carried out work on a boiler in 2013 without being registered and the boiler was let found to be faulty.

The Health and Safety Executive issued a letter to Locke informing him of his responsibility to be registered in order to work on boilers.

However, further information given to HSE suggested that he failed to become Gas Safe registered.

At High Wycombe Crown Court, Philip Locke of Chalfont St Giles, High Wycombe pleaded of breaching pleaded guilty to two charges under the Gas Safety Regulations 1998.

He was sentenced to four months’ imprisonment, suspended for one year, fined £6,500 and ordered to pay costs of £6,280.

After the hearing, HSE inspector Stephen Faulkner said:

“Philip Locke showed disregard for the law when he continued to work on gas appliances without certification.This case highlights the importance that plumbers must be competent and Gas Safe registered to work on gas appliances.”

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