Environmental Management and Pollution Control (Underground Petroleum Storage Systems) Regulations 2020
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10 New storage systems
(1) An infrastructure owner of a storage system must ensure that, before the storage system is allowed to be in use for the first time –
(a) the storage system incorporates the mandatory equipment, designed and installed in accordance with the requirements of AS 4897; and
(b) an equipment integrity test has been conducted after all installation work, including concreting and sealing, has been completed; and
(c) the storage system has passed the equipment integrity test referred to in paragraph (b) .
Penalty: Fine not exceeding 100 penalty units.
(2) Subregulation (1)(a) applies to a storage system whether or not AS 4897 requires all or part of the mandatory equipment –
(a) to be installed as part of the storage system; and
(b) if so installed, to be installed in accordance with the requirements of AS 4897.
(3) A landowner in respect of a storage system must, before the storage system is allowed to be in use for the first time –
(a) satisfy himself or herself; and
(b) notify the Director, in the approved form –
that subregulation (1) has been complied with.
Penalty: Fine not exceeding 100 penalty units.
(4) A person who is to be a system operator of a storage system must ensure that, before the storage system is allowed to be in use for the first time, the storage system has passed an equipment integrity test.
Penalty: Fine not exceeding 100 penalty units.