Will my managing agent organise the gas safety check?
If you’ve taken a ‘fully managed’ service with an agent, they should handle everything
If you’ve taken a ‘fully managed’ service with an agent, they should handle everything relating to health and safety checks for you – including organising the annual gas safety check.
Just make sure that their responsibilities – and therefore legal liabilities – are clearly stated in your contract with them.
As the landlord, it is ultimately your legal responsibility to make sure your property is let legally and safely, so always use a professional managing agent that’s a member of one of the self-regulating industry bodies, such as Propertymark, RICS or UKALA . That way, you can be confident in the quality and integrity of their service.
Even if an agent isn’t a member of an industry body, they are still required by law to join a government authorised consumer redress scheme, such as the Property Redress Scheme (PRS), part of the Total Property.
That gives you peace of mind that if you have any complaint about your agent, there is an independent third party that will mediate and resolve the matter.
Your agent should arrange the engineer’s visit, make sure a copy of the Gas Safety Record is provided to the tenant and file the original document. It’s a good idea to ask them to send you a copy as well, so you know everything’s in order.
