Can / Can't i? Should / Shouldn't i? How hard can it be?

[Slime]

HI.
Left this a bit late, but I'm getting a new gas cooker today.
The problems are as follows.
1. As the new cooker is a modern version of my old one, surely the change over is very straight forward. Just a case of dis-connect the old, then re-connect the new.
2. What are the legal implications? I've been told various different things about this and am now confused. I've even been told that it's perfectly okay to remove a cooker, (for whatever reason), and then re-connect that same cooker..................just not a different one!
Any help & advice would be very much appreciated.
I should let you know that I am not a 'gas safe' engineer, nor am I an idiot. I am aware of the safety issues in dealing with gas, but I'm only swapping out a cooker after all.

Thanking you all in advance,

Slime.

 

[captaincaveman1]

In a nut shell if you disturb a gas joint then you must pressure test the installation afterwards and that must only be done by someone deemed competant and as your not gas safe registered then im afraid you arnt . Its not just a case of removing the hose and refitting it on a new one as the reg's also include which way the bayonet has to face , stability , pipe size, condition of the flex hose and how the pipe carcass is secured etc.