Rentals covered by Victoria's 2-year gas safety check duty follow the same cycle across Melbourne's three different gas network areas.
Melbourne's reticulated gas network is split between three distributors: AusNet supplies the city's west, Multinet Gas Networks, part of the Australian Gas Infrastructure Group, supplies the southern and eastern suburbs along with the Yarra Ranges, and Australian Gas Networks' Victorian Gas Network supplies the northern suburbs, including Coburg, Preston, Reservoir and Brunswick. As with Queensland's networks, this is a distribution detail, not a compliance one: for a rental agreement entered into after 29 March 2021, or a fixed-term agreement of more than five years that rolls over into a periodic tenancy after that date, the gas safety check duty under the Residential Tenancies Regulations 2021 is the same two-yearly cycle regardless of which network the property sits on.
Melbourne has one of the country's largest concentrations of established rental housing, much of it with older gas heating, from wall furnaces to ducted systems, which is exactly the equipment the combustion spillage test in a gas safety check is designed to catch problems with before they become a carbon monoxide risk. If you're a rental provider managing multiple Melbourne properties, staggering your gas safety check dates rather than letting them all fall due at once, especially heading into peak winter heating season, makes the two-year cycle much easier to manage.
"Gas safety check Melbourne" is one of the most-searched terms for this requirement, and it points to the same rule covered in our main gas safety check Victoria guide, there's no separate, lighter Melbourne-specific version of the check.
Typical gas safety check cost in VIC
$240–$300
+ GST, standalone gas-only safety check
Compiled from published pricing at Suburban Gas and Plumbing (sgpmelbourne.com.au: from $240 inc. GST) and Static Blue (staticblue.com.au: $300 + GST), checked live August 2026, for a gas safety check only (excluding combined electrical/fire packages).
Victorian plumbers licensed for Type B gasfitting work must hold public liability insurance with a minimum of $5 million cover as a condition the Building and Plumbing Commission checks before it will issue or renew a licence, evidenced by a Certificate of Currency, under a Ministerial Order that has been in force since 2002.
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Checked July 2026.