27Documents to be kept for 7 years from date of decommissioning

27 Documents to be kept for 7 years from date of decommissioning

27 Documents to be kept for 7 years from date of decommissioning

(1) If a storage system is decommissioned, the person responsible for the storage system immediately before the system is decommissioned 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 system is decommissioned.

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) each certificate issued for the system under clause 9, 13 or 14,

(b) a leak detection system report referred to in clause 17,

(c) each version of the fuel system operation plan prepared for the system under clause 18,

(d) a record made in relation to the system under clause 22,

(e) a report prepared for the system under clause 23 or 24,

(f) the incident log kept for the system under clause 25,

(g) a report that has been made as a consequence of action taken under Part 5.7 of the Act in connection with a pollution incident involving the system,

(h) anything that was a required document for the purposes of clause 26 of the Protection of the Environment Operations (Underground Petroleum Storage Systems) Regulation 2014 immediately before its repeal.

(3) The requirements of this clause apply in addition to the requirements of clause 26.