Queensland Consolidated Regulations

WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATION 2011 - REG 390

390 Pipeline builder's duties

(1) This section 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.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—

(a) for an individual—12 1 / 2 penalty units; or

(b) for a body corporate—60 penalty units.

(3) The person must ensure that the regulator is given the information in each of 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 subsection (2) —when the information changes;

(d) if part of the pipeline is to be repaired—before the pipeline is repaired;

(e) if part of the pipeline is removed, decommissioned, closed or abandoned—when the removal, decommissioning, closure or abandonment occurs.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—

(a) for an individual—12 1 / 2 penalty units; or

(b) for a body corporate—60 penalty units.