New Zealand Gazette – 2007 – No. 47

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✨ Hazardous Substances Notice



NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 47

2 MAY 2007

Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996

Hazardous Substances (Storage and Disposal of Polychlorinated Biphenyls) Notice 2007

Pursuant to sections 25B and 66A of the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996 (in this notice referred to as the Act), the Environmental Risk Management Authority gives the following notice.

  1. Title

This notice is the Hazardous Substances (Storage and Disposal of Polychlorinated Biphenyls) Notice 2007.

  1. Commencement

This notice comes into force 28 days after the date on which it is notified in the New Zealand Gazette.

  1. Interpretation

(1) In this notice, words and phrases have the meanings given to them in the Act and in regulations made under the Act.

(2) In this notice, the following words and phrases have the following meanings:

(a) holder means a person who stores polychlorinated biphenyls in accordance with this notice;

(b) environmentally sound disposal in relation to polychlorinated biphenyls means disposal in accordance with clause 9 of this notice;

(c) polychlorinated biphenyls includes any polychlorinated biphenyls that are present at a concentration of more than 50 parts per million, and includes any equipment or material that contains polychlorinated biphenyls at a concentration of more than 50 parts per million;

(d) store includes the possession, use, collection, and transportation of polychlorinated biphenyls.

  1. Application

(1) This notice applies to all polychlorinated biphenyls that are not stored in accordance with a valid exemption under section 25C of the Act.

(2) This notice expires with the close of 31 December 2016.

(3) This notice shall not apply to the storage of small amounts of polychlorinated biphenyls for use as analytical standards or for research and development in a laboratory that are the subject of an approval under section 30 of the Act.

  1. Storage of polychlorinated biphenyls

(1) No polychlorinated biphenyls to which this notice applies may be stored in New Zealand unless:

(a) the holder notifies the Authority in writing in accordance with clause 6 of this notice; and



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