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Landlord Receives Suspended Sentence After Failed Maintenance on Gas Appliances
This article is an external press release originally published on the Landlord News website, which has now been migrated to the Just Landlords blog.
A landlord from Blackburn has received a fine subsequent to failing to maintain gas appliances at his rental properties in Norwich.
Norwich Magistrates’ Court was informed that inspectors from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and Gas Safe Register inspected a property at Kings Lynn in Norfolk in 2017 where they discovered a gas oven to be ‘at risk’ and the gas heating boiler to be unsafe to use.
The landlord also failed to comply with an Improvement Notice issued in July last year, which required the act to deal with issues.
Ladell pleaded guilty to breaching Section 21 of the Health & Safety Work etc. Act 1974 and breaching Regulation 36(2) and Regulation 36(3) of the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998.
He received a 20-week prison sentence suspended for 24 months, ordered to carry out 100 hours of unpaid community work and to pay full costs of £4,146.
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