Victorian Numbered Regulations Victorian Numbered Regulations(1) Mechanical services work is the construction, installation, replacement, repair, alteration, maintenance, testing or commissioning of a mechanical heating, cooling or ventilation system in a building, which is associated with the heating, cooling or ventilation of that building and includes—
(a) the construction, installation, replacement, repair, alteration, maintenance, testing or commissioning of—
(i) any valve, regulator, register, pipe, duct, flue, tank, heating or cooling pipe or surface, boiler, burner, solid fuel heater, coil or other item that is used in the system; and
(ii) any single head split system; and
(iii) in relation to a cooling tower, any water pipe, valve, pump, automated dosing device or automated bleeding device or any other mechanical component that affects the cooling tower's cooling water flow rate or wastewater disposal; and
(iv) any fixed component used in a reticulation system for the supply or removal of medical gases from the gas source to a wall outlet; and
(v) roof sheeting and flashing that is necessary for the purpose of any work described in this subregulation; and
(b) any design work that is incidental to, or associated with, any work described in this subregulation.
(2) Mechanical services work does not include—
(a) gasfitting work; or
(b) any work on a cooling tower drift eliminator; or
(c) any treatment of cooling water; or
(d) the connection or disconnection of a system referred to in subregulation (1) from a water supply other than disconnection of the system from a water supply at an isolating valve adjacent to a mechanical component of that system.
(3) In this regulation—
"automated bleeding device" means an automatic device used for the purposes of draining or bleeding or removing a fluid or gas;
"medical gase" means any gas or mixture of gases or other substance or process used for hospital or medical use that is supplied to, removed from or conducted at, a hospital or other place where medical procedures are carried out, by way of a pipeline reticulation system and includes oxygen, helium, nitrous oxide, nitrogen, medical air, surgical tool gas, carbon dioxide and common mixtures of those gases as well as anaesthesia waste.