4Prescribed work and criteria

4 Prescribed work and criteria

(1)  For the purposes of section 60(2)(b) of the Act, work is of a prescribed kind if the work is –

(a) gas connection work; or

(b) work undertaken on gas infrastructure; or

(c) work undertaken on a pressure reduction facility.

(2)  For the purposes of section 60(2)(b) of the Act, the prescribed criteria for work prescribed under subregulation (1) are –

(a) in the case of work prescribed under subregulation (1)(a) , that the work is undertaken on a distribution system; and

(b) in the case of work prescribed under subregulation (1)(b) , that the work is not undertaken on a pressure reduction facility; and

(c) in the case of work prescribed under subregulation (1)(c) , that –

(i) the work is only undertaken within an area that is zoned, in a planning scheme under the Land Use Planning and Approvals Act 1993 , for rural or industrial purposes; and

(ii) the work is intended to be undertaken primarily during daylight hours; and

(iii) if the work is intended to take more than 4 weeks, and it is intended, at the time the work commences, that the work will not result in a time average A-weighted sound pressure level (as defined in Australian Standards AS 1055:2018 Acoustics – Description and measurement of environmental noise) that exceeds –

(A) if the work is to take not more than 26 weeks to be completed, 60dB(A) when evaluated over any 10-minute period beyond the boundary of the land parcel on which the pressure reduction facility is situated; and

(B) if the work is to take more than 26 weeks to be completed, 55dB(A) when evaluated over any 10-minute period beyond the boundary of the land parcel on which the pressure reduction facility is situated; and