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Gas Reform  | I bought a new apartment from a contractor. Am I bound, during the first year, to the gas supplier chosen by the contractor? | The new law repealed article 2 to the Land Law (Switching Gas Supplier in a Condominium), 5751-1991, which determined that a decision in the matter of switching a gas supplier shall not be carried out before a year has passed from the day the central gas system commenced operating.
However, the aforesaid article 2 shall continue to apply to a contract for the installation of a central gas system or for a gas supply, made before January 1st 2008, and as long as the operating of the central gas system by the power of the aforesaid contract did not commence later that September 1st 2010. |  |
| Is the current gas supplier allowed to dismantle his gas receptacle which is concealed in the ground in the building’s yard? | The new law obliges the current gas supplier to sell his gas receptacle to a new gas supplier which is interested in it, in a price determined in the Order of Control over Prices of Consumer Goods and Services (Price of a Static LPG Cylinder), 5769-2009.
If the new supplier notified the current supplier that he is not interested in purchasing the receptacle from the current supplier, the current supplier shall remove the receptacle from its place within 15 days from the notification delivery day, and as long as he notified the apartment owners three days in advance on the date of the removal. | |
| The new gas supplier started supplying me with gas without testing my gas installation, is it in order? | No, it is not in order. The gas supplier is obliged to conduct a test on the gas system prior to supplying gas to the gas installation. | |
| Which tests must the gas supplier conduct on the gas system under the new law? | In addition to the preliminary test, prior to supplying gas to the installation, the gas supplier is obliged to conduct periodical tests on all the consumers to whom he supplies gas to, and it is prohibited to supply gas to an installation of a consumer who did not allow the conductance of the aforesaid test.
Tests as aforesaid shall be conducted at least once every five years or once in a shorter period of time, as far as provisions in this matter were determined by the Minister or by Israeli Standard IS 158 of the Standards Institution. | |
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