New Zealand Gazette – 2006 – No. 71

Page 1649

✨ Transitional Controls for Hazardous Substances



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Schedule 3

Transitional controls

Contents

1 Purpose of Schedule
2 Persons may comply with Act and controls at any time
3 Substances and locations to which Schedule does not apply
4 Compliance with obligations and restrictions as at 1 July 2006 for transitional period
5 Transitional provision for hazardous substance locations
6 Full test certificate for hazardous substance location
7 Existing stationary container systems
8 Existing secondary containment system for stationary tank or process container
9 Approved handlers
10 Packaging
11 Identification, documentation, and signage
12 Fire extinguishers, emergency management response plans, and secondary containment
13 Transitional provisions for licences to sell or pack poisons

1 Purpose of Schedule

(1) The purpose of this Schedule is to provide for a transitional period to allow persons dealing
with hazardous substances described in Schedule 1 to comply with the Act, and controls under
the Act, in relation to those hazardous substances.

(2) This Schedule achieves the purpose described in subclause (1) by—

(a) providing that, for a period of 6 months from the commencement of this notice, a person
may comply with the obligations and restrictions that applied to those hazardous
substances immediately before the commencement of this notice, as if this notice (other
than this Schedule) had not been given; and

(b) providing for obligations and restrictions to continue to apply after the expiry of that 6
month period in order to progressively impose the requirements of the Act, and controls
under the Act, in relation to those hazardous substances.

2 Persons may comply with Act and controls at any time

Except as specifically provided in this Schedule, this Schedule does not prevent a person from
complying with the Act, and controls under the Act, as if this Schedule did not exist.

3 Substances and locations to which Schedule does not apply

(1) Nothing in this Schedule applies to any of the following:

(a) a hazardous substance that was not lawfully used in New Zealand immediately before 1
July 2006:

(b) a hazardous substance location that was not in use immediately before 1 July 2006:

(c) a hazardous substance at a hazardous substance location if the substance was not
permitted to be stored at the location immediately before 1 July 2006.



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✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🏥 Changes to Schedule 10 of the Hazardous Substances (Dangerous Goods and Scheduled Toxic Substances) Transfer Notice 2004 (continued from previous page)

🏥 Health & Social Welfare
Hazardous Substances, Dangerous Goods, Scheduled Toxic Substances, Transitional Controls, Compliance, Stationary Container System