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WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY (NATIONAL UNIFORM LEGISLATION) REGULATIONS 2011
390Pipeline builder's duties
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390 Pipeline builder's duties
(1) This regulation applies to a person who intends to build a pipeline
that will:
(a) cross into a public place; and
(b) be used to transfer a Schedule 11 hazardous chemical.
(2) The person must ensure that, before the building of the pipeline
commences, the regulator is given the following information:
(a) the name of the pipeline's intended owner and operator;
(b) the pipeline's specifications;
(c) the intended procedures for the operation, maintenance,
renewal and relaying of the pipeline;
(d) any public place that the pipeline will cross;
(e) the intended emergency response procedures.
(3) The person must ensure that the regulator is given the information
in the following circumstances:
(a) before the pipeline is commissioned;
(b) before the pipeline is likely to contain a hazardous chemical;
(c) if there is any change in the information given under
subregulation (2) – when the information changes;
(d) if part of the pipeline is to be repaired – before the pipeline is
repaired;
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(e) if part of the pipeline is removed, decommissioned, closed or
abandoned – when the removal, decommissioning, closure or
abandonment occurs.