21Mandatory reporting of gas incidents

21 Mandatory reporting of gas incidents

(1)  A licensee or gas supplier must report to the Director in accordance with the regulations any incident which occurs in respect of gas infrastructure, a gas storage system, or a gas installation, of that licensee or gas supplier.

Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 500 penalty units.

(2)  A licensee or gas supplier must report to the Director, as soon as practicable, any incident of which it is aware and which occurs in respect of a gas installation to which it supplies or sells gas.

Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 500 penalty units.

(3)  A owner and operator of a gas installation, gas appliance, automotive gas fuel system or gas storage system must report to the Director, as soon as practicable, any incident which occurs in respect of the gas installation, gas appliance, automotive gas fuel system or gas storage system.

Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 500 penalty units.

(4)  The Chief Officer of the Tasmania Fire Service must report to the Director any fire or explosion in which he or she suspects gas was a cause or contributing factor.

(5)  A person must not unnecessarily interfere with or alter any gas infrastructure, gas installation, automotive gas fuel system or gas storage system so as to prevent a proper investigation of any incident caused by the operation or condition of that infrastructure, installation, fuel system or storage system.

Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 1 000 penalty units.