Corgi registration

[Bambergaspipe]

This year I decided to get rid of my badge & go it alone. All I do know is take my qualifications & present them to my customers, they know I am competent to work with gas & everybody`s happy. Just thought I would share this with every gas fitter sick of paying through the teeth for a fat bloke to come out once every year or so to tell you how great you are. F**k Corgi I have never been busier.

 

[Dan Robinson]

Brave, but possibly very silly.

 

[ollski]

Alas although your certifactes state they are certificates of competance the law requires you to be a member of a certified body which you wont be so working illegally.

 

[gas4you]

Don't know what to say Bamber Or is this a cat amongst the pigeons wind up for an otherwise quiet weekend

 

[ollski]

Or is this a cat amongst the pigeons wind up for an otherwise quiet weekend

Has bamber ever posted anything else?

 

[Bambergaspipe]

Brave, but possibly very silly.

Corgi registration is just a name on a list. It is not a qualification. I repeat. Being Corgi registered is not a qualification. A.C.S. is a qualification. Accredited Gas Certificate. I have no obligation to prove to my customers that I am Corgi registered, I have an obligation to prove I am competent. My City & Guilds deem me so. I have no need to register with anyone, especially Corgi.

(I talked to my solicitor at full length about this ).

 

[ollski]

Brave, but possibly very silly.

(I talked to my solicitor at full length about this ).

Best get a new one then. There is a legal requirement for you to be a member of a competent person's scheme, of which there is only one which is run by corgi. I think you are talking sense and have argued the same point myself in the past, it is correct in common sense however not on law.

 

[giblets]

So what about the bit in the Gas Regs that say that you are required to be a member of a 'class of persons' approved by the HSE?

 

[simond]

I talked to my solicitor at full length about this

If you have talked to your solicitor for any length of time I suspect you could have just paid your CORGI sub instead and still have change left in your pocket.

Sounds more like a pub discussion to me. You are either arrogant or misguided. Either way I hope you will keep us abreast of developments

 

[Bambergaspipe]

[quote="simond]

You are either arrogant or misguided.

Arrogant yes, misguided.. I think not. If I`m wrong, attend one of my jobs & sue me for not being registered. You will lose.

 

[gas4you]

As the phrase 'the laws an ass' no one can possibly predict the outcome of any court case these days

 

[simond]

I won't be attending your jobs or sueing you Bamber. It's none of my business.

Arrogance has its virtues, I'm tempted to say good luck with your endeavours......

 

[Dan Robinson]

Accepting that this is a wind up:


no self-employed person shall carry out any such work, unless the employer or self-employed person, as the case may be, is a member of a class of persons approved for the time being by the Health and Safety Executive for the purposes of this paragraph.


Unfortunately for you that means CORGI'd.

Just as I can't do work without it being backed up by an invoice for my company - even though I'm the boss.

 

[Bambergaspipe]

quote="simond"]I won't be attending your jobs or sueing you Bamber. It's none of my business.

I think you just made it your business when you posted a reply? Has your bottle gone

 

[Bambergaspipe]

no self-employed person shall carry out any such work, unless the employer or self-employed person, as the case may be, is a member of a class of persons approved for the time being by the Health and Safety Executive for the purposes of this paragraph.

Unfortunately for you that means CORGI'd.

Health & Safety? Read the Gas Regs mate