חוק הגז (בטיחות ורישוי) (תיקון מס' 6), התשע"ח-2018Gas Law (Safety and Licensing) (Amendment No. 6), 2018 · automatic translation · suggest a correction

Official summary of the law (Knesset)

The Law was passed in its second and third readings on 9 July 2018, and it amends the Gas Law (Safety and Licensing), 1989 (hereinafter – the Law). The Law, in its current wording as amended in 2015, establishes provisions that will allow the authorization of private inspection bodies that will be authorized to conduct safety inspections for the installation and operation of natural gas consumption facilities, and to issue certificates of conformity for those facilities. The Law also provides that the Standards Institute will also serve as an inspection body. The authorization of inspection bodies is intended to eliminate the need to obtain approval from the Natural Gas Authority at the Ministry of Energy for every installation or operation of a natural gas facility. However, the Law provides that in cases where there is concern about a risk to public safety, the safety supervisor at the Natural Gas Authority may give instructions to the facility owner in order to prevent the danger, and may also instruct an inspection body to conduct a conformity inspection of the facility, provided that the body inspecting the facility will not be the same inspection body that issued the valid certificate of conformity for the facility. In order to allow preparation for implementing the arrangement legislated in 2015, including enabling the authorization of inspection bodies, transitional provisions were established in the Law. Among the transitional provisions, a provision was established regarding the authority of the safety supervisor at the Natural Gas Authority to order the inspection of natural gas consumption facilities whose operation may pose a danger to the public, according to which the supervisor may instruct the Standards Institute, serving as an inspection body as noted, to conduct the conformity inspection of a natural gas facility, even if the Standards Institute was the body that issued the certificate of conformity for that facility. This provision was established because during the transition period, until inspection bodies are authorized, the Standards Institute serves as the primary inspection body. This provision was in effect for six months from September 2017, meaning its validity expired in March 2018. The amendment to the Law extends the validity of that provision by two years, so that it will apply until September 2019.

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