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How are landlords preserving the expiry date when handing Gas Safety Certificates to new tenants? Engineers are still dating Certificates on the day of completion, there is no place to identify a later expiry date.

"New regulations introduced in April 2018 allow a landlord to arrange for a gas safety check to be carried out any time from 10-12 calendar months after the previous check whilst still preserving the original check expiry date"

My only thought is to supply a copy of the previous certificate as well but that does seem a little silly & requires explanation to tenant 

Many thanks

All my GSCs have a "NEXT GAS SAFETY CHECK DUE BEFORE:" box and a date written into it. The answer I'm giving is so simple I don't think I've really gotten the crux of your question... it can't have a lifetime of, say, 16 months. You can do it earlier than you might normally do... but you always could anyway.

Could you maybe explain with the use of an example, because I currently have no plans to do anything differently to what I do now?

Very Interesting!  I've just pulled my last certificate to double check.  Although not due until 20/4/19 it was carried out on 18/3/19, it reads:-

"NEXT GAS SAFETY CHECK MUST BE CARRIED OUT WITHIN 12 MONTHS"   There's no box as you describe above.

Perhaps the engineer was using old certificates?  Is this legal?  Should I request new certificate?

That I do not know because I've only ever used one company for all my GSCs... and the certificate hasn't changed. We'd need more input to ascertain...

Mine have that line on in capitalised bold.

There are two date boxes below it,
- one is the date of issue,
- and the other is the date it was received by Landlord/Home Owner.

I dont have any other date boxes.

My form is entitled INTERPART Form Ref. INP0294. Does the img tag work here?



Yes!

I can see this image on my PC, but not on my tablet... or my phone. Weird.

Let me know if you can't see it and I'll insert a photo that I'll take of my PC screen, from my phone, as an image... that'll sort it.

Martha, by the sounds of it my form is exactly the same as yours