Every year Sureserve Compliance South are required to check landlords gas appliances in your home, such as gas boilers, gas fires and cookers. A degree of flexibility has been introduced for the timing of landlords’ mandatory annual gas safety checks.
The MOT-style change will allow landlords to carry out their annual gas safety check in the two months before the due date and retain the existing expiry date.
This regulation sets out when the next safety check must be completed in order to retain the existing deadline date. It also sets out a one-off flexibility that landlords can use to align the date of an appliance check with that of other appliances at the same premises. This avoids landlords waiting until the last minute and not gaining access or having to shorten the annual cycle check to comply with the law. There is no change to the legal requirement for an annual gas safety check or for maintenance to be carried out.
Here is an example:
An engineer completes a gas safety record on 10 February 2025 which means the next check is due by 10 February 2026 (the “deadline date”). On 5 January 2026, the next gas safety record is completed (about 5 weeks early). The next check will be due on 10 February 2027 despite being done early because the “deadline date” has been retained under the new legislation.
Under the previous rules using this example, the next record would have been due on 5 January 2027.
Please be aware you may be required the have your gas safety check sooner than current expiry as this will then align servicing into the summer months to assist with the winter demand.
If you would like more information or would like to check when your last gas safety check was, please contact Sureserve on 020 3961 5210.