All installers who are currently carrying out gas work should be registered now and will need to continue to be registered in the future. The scope of registration will not change and will still require installers working on domestic, non-domestic, commercial, natural gas and liquid petroleum gas installations to be registered.
Yes. CORGI will continue to operate the gas installer registration scheme until the end of March 2009 and you should continue to fully comply with all of their rules of registration.
No. Any installer wishing to undertake gas related work must be registered and must therefore register with the existing scheme operated by CORGI.
The current CORGI registration for all installers comes to an end at the end of March 2009. Installers will be required to register with the new scheme for the period commencing the 1 April 2009. Further information on renewals will be provided after the contractual arrangements are finalised.
We all want to see the new arrangements in place as soon as possible, but what is most important is getting the best outcome for gas consumers and installers. This includes ensuring that there are effective transition arrangements in place between the old scheme and the new one to properly manage the changes involved. These considerations have all pointed to starting the new scheme in April 2009.
To continue to undertake gas work, installers must remain registered as part of the CORGI scheme. For most this means no change but new installers or installers coming back to gas work must ensure they are registered with CORGI.
Gas installers should continue to comply with the full terms of their existing registration. For gas work that is notifiable to local authority building control, for example, installers must continue to register that work through CORGI.
No. CORGI will operate the registration scheme until the end of March 2009 and the new scheme operated by Capita will commence on 1 April 2009. Capita and CORGI are currently discussing how to handle registrations for 2009/10 and a further announcement will be made as soon as possible. Whilst there may be some minor disruption during this period every effort will be made to minimise this.
Details on how and when installers should register for the new scheme will be available in the coming months.
It is anticipated that eligible CORGI staff will transfer to the new scheme provider under TUPE. TUPE is short for ‘Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006’ which are regulations designed to protect the rights of employees if the business in which they are employed changes hands or the work carried out by a business (the ‘undertakings’) moves from one provider to another.