147Duty to provide current safety data sheet

147 Duty to provide current safety data sheet

(1) A manufacturer or supplier of a hazardous substance must ensure that a copy of the current safety data sheet for the substance is provided—

(a) to any person to whom the substance is supplied on or before the first occasion that the substance is supplied to that person; and

(b) on request, to an employer who proposes to use the hazardous substance at a workplace.

2 In subregulation (1), a reference to "supplier" includes importing supplier.

(2) It is sufficient compliance with subregulation (1) if one person with a duty under the subregulation complies with the subregulation.

If a manufacturer of a hazardous substance complies with subregulation (1) in relation to a hazardous substance in a circumstance to which subregulation (1) applies, a supplier of the hazardous substance need not also comply in relation to the hazardous substance in that circumstance.

(3) Subregulation (1) does not apply—

(a) to a retailer or a retail warehouse operator if the hazardous substance is supplied in a consumer package; or

(b) if the hazardous substance is supplied to the fuel tank of a vehicle as fuel for the vehicle.