Boiler, Pressure Vessel and Compressed Gas

Fee Policy

A Contractor’s Licence may be issued to an applicant seeking to fabricate, install, alter, repair or test boilers, pressure vessels, fittings or pressure piping system.

All fittings’ designs must be registered in this Province before the fittings are fabricated.

Any person, firm or corporation storing or distributing propane or operating a gas dispensing unit for filling portable cylinders must be the holder of a Propane Plant Licence for each place of business.

All individuals involved in the installation, alteration, purging, activation, service repair or removal of any propane gas appliances, equipment, systems, cylinders and tanks must be certified to do so.

All individuals involved in the installation, alteration, purging, activation, service repair or removal of any medical gas appliances, equipment, systems, cylinders and tanks must be certified to do so.

The design of all pressure piping systems exceeding the size limitations specified by the Regulations must be registered.

A Certificate of Plant Registration may be issued to owners of registered pressure plants who are operating a power plant, heating plant, refrigeration plant, compressed gas plant or combined plant as defined in the Regulations.

Any installation of or alterations to a pressure system, in accordance with the Boiler, Pressure Vessel and Compressed Gas Regulations, must have a permit and must be inspected when the work is completed. In addition, all boilers and pressure vessels are inspected periodically in accordance with the Periodic Inspection Internal Policy.

Installation or alterations to a Pressure System require a Permit

A certification as a Welder, Brazer, Operator may be issued to a welder or brazer who is employed by a licenced pressure system contractor, holding a registered Welding Procedure Specification when the candidate has passed a test meeting the requirements of ASME Code, Section IX.