26Documents to be kept for 7 years from date of creation

26 Documents to be kept for 7 years from date of creation

26 Documents to be kept for 7 years from date of creation

(1) The person responsible for a storage system must ensure that each required document for the storage system, including a document delivered in accordance with clause 28, is kept for at least 7 years from the day on which the document was created.

Maximum penalty—100 penalty units (in the case of an individual) and 200 penalty units (in the case of a corporation).

(2) For the purposes of this clause, required document, in relation to a storage system, means any of the following—

(a) a document containing the results of equipment integrity tests for the system carried out under clause 9, 13 or 14,

(b) a document containing the data produced by any measuring instrument referred to in clause 19,

(c) a document containing details of action taken under clause 21,

(d) a report prepared for the system under clause 23,

(e) a notification that is given to the appropriate regulatory authority of a pollution incident involving a storage system,

(f) anything that was a required document for the purposes of clause 25 of the Protection of the Environment Operations (Underground Petroleum Storage Systems) Regulation 2014 immediately before its repeal.