New Zealand Gazette – 2006 – No. 66

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✨ Hazardous Substances Regulations



26 JUNE 2006 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 66

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Control – Hazardous Substances (Emergency Management) Regulations 2001

Regulations 37 and 38

Immediately after the changes to controls for regulation 36, insert the following:

Regulation 37

This regulation applies to each hazardous substance described in Schedule 1 as if the following subclauses were inserted at the end:

(2) 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 capacity 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.

(3) Pooling substances to which subclause (2) applies must be segregated where appropriate to ensure that leakage of one substance may not adversely affect the container of another substance.

Regulation 38

This regulation applies to each hazardous substance described in Schedule 1 as if the following subclauses were inserted at the end:

(2) 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.



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Control of Hazardous Substances (Emergency Management) Regulations 2001 (continued from previous page)

Environmental Risk Management
Hazardous substances, emergency management, pooling substances, secondary containment, regulations