The current Act stipulates that persons who intend to use specified high-pressure gases such as liquefied ammonia and acetylene, and who have a storage capacity in excess of a specific capacity, shall file a report in advance with the head of the Si/Gun/Gu, and that the facilities using the specified high-pressure gases shall undergo a completion inspection and regular inspections.

However, auditors of the Board of Audit and Inspection have identified cases where persons who are required to report on the use of specified high-pressure gases have been supplied with and are using specified high-pressure gases without filing a report or undergoing a completion inspection and regular inspections for the facilities for using such gas.

Accordingly, the Amendment prescribes that any high-pressure gas producer or high-pressure gas seller who supplies a specified high-pressure gas to verify such matters as whether a person who uses the gas is required to file a report on such use, and whether a gas-using facility of reported users of specified high-pressure gas has undergone a completion inspection and regular inspections, thereby aiming to strengthen the safety control of specified high-pressure gases (Article 9, paragraph 1; Article 20, paragraphs 6 and 7; and Article 43, paragraph 4).

Obligate high-pressure gas producers and high-pressure gas sellers to perform checks when supplying specified high-pressure gases (Article 20, paragraph 6)

Obligate high-pressure gas producers and high-pressure gas sellers to suspend the supply of specified high-pressure gases to any user of specified high-pressure gases who has failed to file or report or undergo inspections; and to report the fact that supply has been suspended (Article 20, paragraph 7)