Is anyone out there a landlord, or knows a landlord who has been prosecuted for not having an up to date gas safety certificate ? I'm interested in knowing what the penalty imposed was and how out of date the certificate was when prosecuted. My landlady is stalling and stalling over renewing ours and given that I have a new baby who's health is potentially at risk, i'd like some facts and figures to present to her.

Hope some of you can help.

We had the same problem with a previous landlady. We wrote her a letter giving her 14 days to supply one - you have to put the request in writing, specify how long you give her to do it, send it recorded delivery (£1.04). Then if she hasn't complied ring the enviornmental health dept at the council because she is breaking the law. When we did this with our landlady she complied double quick and half the applicances were faulty and we had the cooker condemned- she was not a happy bunny but at least we knew then why she was reluctant to have it done. Stand your ground.

technically it is a health & safety executive matter.

you have to request it in writing. if the landlord doesnt do it you have to report them to the HSE and they prosecute.

because people dont tend to report their landlords (you want to keep living there, dont you) it doesnt happen that often. When it finally kills someone the HSE ask for the certificates, the landlord cant produce them and they get prosecuted then. Bit late for the person it killed, but this is they way our laws are slanted.

hi there, i am a landlord and although i don't deal with gas, my husband is a plumber, and services gas/ oil boilers regularly, all gas , electic oil boilers should be serviced annually, and gas must be checked by someone who is corgi registered, i hope this helps,xx really not sure about figures, if you are really concerned you should maybe get the gas checked out yourself and send your landlord the bill, she should have to pay it, also check out the small ptint of your lease, just in case it says that you may be responsible for it yourself. the cab have a great book for landlords and tennets, if you can get hold of that it gives you a lot info.xx

Write to them and insist it is done..in the nicest possible way. If they don't the Gas people will probably come and check it. But we had a similar problem in that our boiler was not fitted by Corgi so had no safety certificate, and it seemed no matter who we phoned they couldn't care less even though they all said it was illegal.
In the end we called the Gas people and as the boiler was incorrectly fitted it had to be shut off and he had to do something or we by law could have got it done and he would have been billed.

To be honest it sounds like you need to think about moving.