The annual check is the law everywhere in Britain
Under the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998, every landlord must have the gas appliances, flues and pipework they provide checked every 12 months by a Gas Safe registered engineer. The record of that check is what everyone calls the CP12, the landlord gas safety record. You must give a copy to your existing tenants within 28 days of the check, give new tenants a copy before they move in, and keep records for at least two years.
Only a Gas Safe registered engineer can carry out the check. Ask to see the engineer’s Gas Safe ID card, every registered engineer carries one, or look the business up on the Gas Safe Register before they arrive.
What Wales adds on top
Welsh tenancies now run under the Renting Homes (Wales) Act, which converted tenancies into occupation contracts and requires every rented home to be fit for human habitation. The supporting regulations from 2022 spell out what that means in practice, and for gas landlords two points matter most: working smoke alarms are required, and carbon monoxide alarms are required where there are gas appliances. A missing CO alarm in a room with a gas boiler or fire is no longer just bad practice in Wales, it cuts against your fitness-for-habitation duties.
None of this replaces the 1998 gas regulations. The annual CP12 duty and the Welsh habitation rules sit side by side, and a serious landlord simply complies with both.
The painless way to run it
The efficient pattern LMB sets up for local landlords is one visit per property per year: the CP12 check and the annual boiler service done together. The service keeps the boiler’s manufacturer warranty valid and catches faults while they are small, the CP12 keeps you legal, and the tenant only has to be home once. Lloyd handles the paperwork on the day and you get the records for your file.
If your properties are around Bridgend, Pencoed, Porthcawl, Cardiff or the Vale, you can message Lloyd on WhatsApp or call 07712 646488 and sort dates for the whole portfolio in one conversation. Lloyd works with single-property landlords and small portfolios across the county, and the 5.0 Google rating applies to the rental work just as much as the owner-occupier jobs.
