40Notification of serious electrical and gas accidents

40 Notification of serious electrical and gas accidents

40 Notification of serious electrical and gas accidents

(1) The occupier of the place at which a serious electrical accident or a serious gas accident occurs (or any other person that the regulations may prescribe) must notify the Secretary of the accident—

(a) in relation to a serious medical gas accident—within 24 hours after the accident, and

(a1) in any other case—within 7 days after the accident, and

(b) in the manner (if any) prescribed by the regulations.

Maximum penalty—5 penalty units (if the place at which the accident occurred is residential premises) and 100 penalty units (in any other case).

(2) The regulations may exempt a person, or a person belonging to a class of persons, prescribed by the regulations from any requirement under this section to notify the Secretary of a serious electrical accident or a serious gas accident.

s 40: Am 2020 No 17, Sch 1[8].