How are CORGI, Gas Safe Register and the Building Regulations related?
Until 1 April 2009, if you wanted gas work to be carried out safely and legally, you would look for a CORGI plumber. The Council for Registered Gas Installers was the organisation that kept the records of people that were adequately trained and experienced to work on gas. From 1 April 2009 this job was taken over by Gas Safe Register, and CORGI is no longer involved in English gas safety. It is very important that you check if the engineer has a Gas Safe Register card. A CORGI card has absolutely no legal meaning any more. Gas Safe Register FAQs People can still be a member of CORGI, but apart from promotional benefits, it has precious little value when it comes to legal gaswork. CORGI sell their membership partially on the merit of gas safety, but do very little to end the confusion. They do state somewhere, several tiers down from their home page, with a medium blue letter on a light blue background, that they are NOT the registrar any more. For more information go to the CORGI websi
