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kirkgas
if i'm reading your post correctly you wont like my answer!! i think what you have paid for is a certification fee on top of your training/assessment, you have NOT paid for your gas safe registration, its not the way it is done, to answer your post and the OP's, you pay a college, you get trained and assessed, you also pay an "internal" certification fee to get your paperwork processed by the certification body, when you pass the certification body sends an electronic download to Gas Safe, who for want of a better phrase put you in a "holding tank" as a person who has passed the criteria but is not yet registered to do work, soon after this you will receive your certificate from the certification body, this is the dangerous group to be in as you have a cert but are not registered to work on gas, only after you pay your £420 (for the 1st year, thereafter about £200 per year) and fill out the application form, which is cross referenced with the download from the certification body, and get visited by the inspector will your "company" get added to the register allowing you to do gas work as a 3 month probationer subject to subsequent visits ensuring your work is ok, a lot of people think when they leave the college after their exam that they can do gas work which isn't the case.
the reason the college dont include your gas safe register money is 2 fold, 1 they cant apply on your behalf and 2 depending on your route the fee will be £420 to get a new company on the register or if you are joining an existing firm as an employee the fee is £63. hope this helps
