Dangerous Goods Act 1975 Dangerous Goods (General) Amendment (Fireworks) Regulation 2002 (2002-331) [GG No 92 of 31.5.2002, p 3321] (NSW)

2002 No 331

Dangerous Goods (General) New South Wales

Amendment (Fireworks)

Regulation 2002

under the

Dangerous Goods Act 1975

Her Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following Regulation under the Dangerous Goods Act 1975.

JOHN DELLA BOSCA, M.L.C.,

Minister for Industrial Relations

Explanatory note
The object of this Regulation is to prescribe offences under clause 54 (Display fireworks permits) of the Dangerous Goods (General) Regulation 1999 as offences for which a penalty notice may be issued.

Clause 54 creates offences of receiving or using display fireworks, using a distress signal other than as a distress signal or using certain model rockets, except under the authority of a display fireworks permit.

Police officers and inspectors of dangerous goods will be able to issue penalty notices for these offences. The applicable penalty will be $55 if the offence is committed as an employee or $550 if committed in any other capacity.

This Regulation also makes law revision amendments to delete redundant references to short descriptions of offences and Infringement Processing Bureau codes.

This Regulation is made under the Dangerous Goods Act 1975, including section 43A and section 41 (the general regulation-making power).

Published in Gazette No 92 of 31 May 2002, page 3321	Page 1
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Clause 1	Dangerous Goods (General) Amendment (Fireworks) Regulation 2002

Dangerous Goods (General) Amendment (Fireworks)
Regulation 2002

1     Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Dangerous Goods (General) Amendment

(Fireworks) Regulation 2002.

2 Commencement

This Regulation commences on 31 May 2002.

3 Amendment of Dangerous Goods (General) Regulation 1999

The Dangerous Goods (General) Regulation 1999 is amended as set out in Schedule 1.

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Dangerous Goods (General) Amendment (Fireworks) Regulation 2002

Amendments	Schedule 1
Schedule 1	Amendments

(Clause 3)

[1]     Clause 342 Penalty notice offences and penalties

Insert after clause 342 (2):

(3) For the purposes of this clause, the offence of contravening a term or condition of a licence or permit issued under a provision is taken to be an offence that arises under the provision (even though the offence is an offence under clause 340).

[2]     Clause 344 Short descriptions of offences

Omit the clause.

[3]     Schedule 4 Penalty notices

Omit Columns 3 and 4.

[4]     Schedule 4

Insert in Columns 1 and 2 before the matter relating to clause 94 (2) of the
Dangerous Goods (General) Regulation 1999:

Clause 54 (in the case of a person who 55

commits the offence in his or her
capacity as an employee)

Clause 54 (in any other case)  550

[5]    Dictionary

Omit the definitions of Infringement Processing Bureau and IPB Code.

BY AUTHORITY

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