This petition was submitted during the 2015-2017 parliament
Rejected petition make it an offence to sell controlled building services to unqualified persons.
Gas, oil and solid fuel heating boilers, open-vented and unvented hot water cylinders and oil storage tanks are available without proof of the purchaser having any knowledge or understanding of safety and environmental regulatory control measures deemed necessary to achieve safe installations.
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Unqualified persons purchasing controlled services do not have the necessary knowledge nor understanding to be able to purchase the correct type of equipment to enable a safe and legally compliant installation to be created.
Unqualified persons purchase drivers are perceived cost savings not the creation of safe installations.
Unqualified person purchases of Controlled Services leads to and encourages unqualified installation of same resulting in unsafe situations.
This petition was rejected
Why was this petition rejected?
It’s not clear what the petition is asking the UK Government or Parliament to do.
Petitions need to call on the Government or Parliament to take a specific action. We're not sure what you mean by 'controlled building services'.
We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.