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WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATION 2011 - REG 776

Existing notification of large dangerous goods location

776 Existing notification of large dangerous goods location

(1) This section applies if—
(a) before the commencement, an occupier of a place has given notice (the
"old notice" ) to the chief executive under section 49 of the repealed DGSM Act of information about the storage and handling of dangerous goods or combustible liquids (the
"notified matter" ), within the meaning of that Act, at the place; and
(b) on the commencement, a person conducting a business or undertaking at the place has a duty to give written notice under section 348 of this regulation to the regulator of the notified matter because it has a quantity of hazardous chemicals or group of hazardous chemicals to which that section applies.
(2) On the commencement, the old notice is taken to be a written notice under section 348 of this regulation—
(a) given by the person conducting the business or undertaking at the place to the regulator; and
(b) to the extent it effectively provides the information required to be given under section 348(3) of this regulation.
(3) Section 348(4) applies to the person conducting the business or undertaking.
(4) However, subsection (2) only applies to an old notice for a period of 12 months after the commencement.
(5) At the end of the period of 12 months mentioned in subsection (4), the person conducting the business or undertaking—
(a) must comply with section 348 in relation to the notified matter; and
(b) may be prosecuted for a contravention of that section if the person fails to do so.



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