Section 13 - Protection of the Environment Operations (Underground Petroleum Storage Systems) Regulation 2019 - Equipment integrity test to be performed

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13 Equipment integrity test to be performed

(1) The person responsible for a modified storage system must not commission the system, or authorise or permit the commissioning of the system, unless—

(a) an equipment integrity test of the system has been carried out in accordance with the written directions of a duly qualified person, and

(b) the system has been certified, by the person by whom the test was carried out, as having satisfied the test, and

(c) the person responsible has been provided with the certificate and the results of the equipment integrity test.

Maximum penalty—200 penalty units (in the case of an individual) and 400 penalty units (in the case of a corporation).

(2) The person responsible for a modified storage system must not reuse a tank for the system before the system is recommissioned, or authorise or permit the reuse of a tank before the system is recommissioned, unless—

(a) an equipment integrity test of the tank has been carried out in accordance with the written directions of a duly qualified person, and

(b) the tank has been certified, by the person by whom the test was carried out, as having satisfied the test, and

(c) the person responsible has been provided with the certificate and the results of the equipment integrity test.

Maximum penalty—200 penalty units (in the case of an individual) and 400 penalty units (in the case of a corporation).