✨ Hazardous Substances Regulations
16 DECEMBER 2005
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 208
Schedule 5
Amendments to Schedule 7 to the principal notice
Control – Hazardous Substances (Emergency Management) Regulations 2001
New Controls – Regulations 37 and 38
Insert, after the changes to controls for regulation 36, the following changes to controls:
Regulation 37
This regulation applies as if the following subclauses were inserted at the end:
(1A) If pooling substances which do not have class 1 to 5 hazard classifications are held in a place above ground in containers each of which has a capacity of 60 litres or less,–
(a) if the place’s total pooling potential is less than 20,000 litres, the secondary containment system must have a capacity of at least 25% of that total pooling potential:
(b) if the place’s total pooling potential is 20,000 litres or more, the secondary containment system must have a capacity of the greater of–
(i) 5% of the total pooling potential; or
(ii) 5,000 litres.
(1B) Pooling substances to which subclause (1A) applies, must be segregated where appropriate to ensure that the leakage of one substance may not adversely affect the container of another substance.
Regulation 38
This regulation applies as if the following subclauses were inserted at the end:
(1A) If pooling substances which do not have class 1 to 5 hazard classifications are held in a place above ground in containers 1 or more of which have a capacity of more than 60 litres but none of which have a capacity of more than 450 litres,–
(a) if the place’s total pooling potential is less than 20,000 litres, the secondary containment system must have a capacity of either 25% of that total pooling potential or 110% of the capacity of the largest container, whichever is the greater:
(b) if the place’s total pooling potential is 20,000 litres or more, the secondary containment system must have a capacity of the greater of–
(i) 5% of the total pooling potential; or
(ii) 5,000 litres.
(1B) Pooling substances to which subclause (1A) applies, must be segregated where appropriate to ensure that the leakage of one substance may not adversely affect the container of another substance.
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