Dangerous Goods Safety (General) Amendment Regulations 2012 (WA)

16 March 2012 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 1257

MINERALS AND PETROLEUM

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Dangerous Goods Safety Act 2004

Dangerous Goods Safety (General) Amendment

Regulations 2012

Made by the Governor in Executive Council.

1.            Citation

These regulations are the Dangerous Goods Safety (General)
Amendment Regulations 2012.

2.            Commencement

These regulations come into operation as follows -

(a)	regulations 1 and 2— on the day on which these regulations are published in the Gazette;
(b)	the rest of the regulations - on 1 April 2012.

3.            Regulations amended

These regulations amend the Dangerous Goods Safety (General) Regulations 2007.
4.	Part 6 inserted After regulation 13 insert:

refund or waive all or part of, the fee.

Part 6 - Miscellaneous matters

14.          Fees, Chief Officer may reduce etc.

If, in the circumstances of a particular case in which a fee is payable under the Act, the Chief Officer thinks it is fair or reasonable to do so, he or she may reduce, or

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15. Licences, Chief Officer may synchronise duration of
and date for payment of annual fees for

(1) In this regulation -

licence means -

(a) any of these licences granted under the Dangerous Goods Safety (Explosives) Regulations 2007 -

(i)     an explosives import/export licence;

(ii)     an explosives manufacture licence;

(iii) an explosives manufacture (MPU)
licence;

(iv)     an explosives storage licence;

(v)     an explosives transport licence;

(vi)     an explosives supply licence;

(b) any of these licences granted under the Dangerous Goods Safety (Security Risk Substances) Regulations 2007 -

(i)     an SRS import/export licence;

(ii)     an SRS manufacture licence;

(iii)     an SRS storage licence;

(iv)     an SRS transport licence;

(v)     an SRS supply licence;

(vi)     an SRS fertiliser licence;

(c) a licence granted under the Dangerous Goods

Safety (Storage and Handling of

Non-explosives) Regulations 2007 Part 4;

(d) a registration for a dangerous goods pipeline

granted under the Dangerous Goods Safety (Storage and Handling of Non-explosives)

Regulations 2007 Part 5.

(2) This regulation operates despite the following -

(a)	the Dangerous Goods Safety (Explosives) Regulations 2007 regulation 167;
(b)	the Dangerous Goods Safety (Security Risk Substances) Regulations 2007 regulation 35;
(c)	Dangerous Goods Safety (Storage and

the regulations 34 and 97.

(3) If a person holds 2 or more licences, the Chief Officer,

with the person's consent -

(a) may reduce the duration of one or more of them in order that all of them will, due to the passage of time, expire simultaneously; and

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(b) may set for all or some of the licences one date

in each year as the date on which any fee
payable each year for each licence is due (the

due date).

(4) If under subregulation (3)(a) the Chief Officer decides

to reduce the duration of a licence —

(a)	he or she must cancel the licence and issue a replacement in identical terms that specifies the date on which the licence will expire; and
(b)	the reduction takes effect on the day on which the replacement licence is issued.

(5) If under subregulation (3)(b) the Chief Officer decides to set a due date, he or she must give the holder of the licences written notice of —

(a)	the due date; and
(b)	each licence to which the due date applies; and
(c)	each fee to which the due date applies.

By Command of the Governor,

G. MOORE, Clerk of the Executive Council.