149Testing petrol storage tank

149 Testing petrol storage tank

149 Testing petrol storage tank

(1) The occupier of a petrol service station must ensure that a petrol storage tank is tested as follows—

(a) before required control equipment is fitted to the tank, the tank must be shown to have no leaks in accordance with subsection (2),

(b) after required control equipment is fitted to the tank and before commissioning the tank, a vapour containment integrity test must be conducted in accordance with section 132.

Maximum penalty—

(a) for a corporation—100 penalty units, or

(b) for an individual—50 penalty units.

(2) A tank is taken to have no leaks if, in the previous 3 years, the tank has been certified as having no leaks in accordance with—

(a) the provisions for equipment integrity testing specified in AS 4897—2008, The design, installation and operation of underground petroleum storage systems, section 8.5, or

(b) a test procedure that is certified as being capable of detecting any leak in the liquid space of the petroleum storage system.

(3) In this section—

storage system has the same meaning as in the Protection of the Environment Operations (Underground Petroleum Storage Systems) Regulation 2019.