Western Australian Current Regulations Western Australian Current Regulations (1) On an application
made under regulation 30, the Chief Officer may request an
applicant —
(a) to
supply any other information about the explosive that the Chief Officer
believes is reasonably necessary to determine its design, formulation and
constituents;
(b) to
supply drawings or photographs of the explosive;
(c) to
supply a sample of the explosive;
(d) to
conduct tests on the explosive to determine any of the matters in
subregulation 30(2)(c).
(2) An applicant who
does not obey such a request within 21 days after the date on which it is
made, or any longer period permitted by the Chief Officer, is to be taken to
have withdrawn the application and is entitled to a refund of the fee.
(3) On an application
made under regulation 30, the Chief Officer must either —
(a)
refuse to authorise it; or
(b)
authorise it.
(4) On his or her own
initiative, the Chief Officer may —
(a)
authorise an explosive;
(b)
cancel the authorisation of an explosive;
(c)
assign an authorised explosive a different classification code;
(d)
amend any particulars of the authorisation of an explosive.
(5) If the Chief
Officer authorises an explosive, he or she must assign it a classification
code in accordance with the ADG Code.
(6) For the purposes
of authorising explosives, the Chief Officer —
(a) may
authorise a single article or substance named or specified in the
authorisation;
(b) may
authorise a category of explosives described by a generic name and a generic
description of the category’s design, formulation and constituents set
out in the authorisation.
(7) The Chief Officer
must not authorise an explosive unless satisfied that the
explosive —
(a) has
a legitimate use; and
(b) can
be safely handled, stored and transported,
by suitably licensed
people.
(8) The Chief Officer
must give an applicant written notice of a decision made under this regulation
as soon as practicable after it is made.
[Regulation 31 amended: Gazette
16 Mar 2012 p. 1176.]