New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

DANGEROUS GOODS (GAS INSTALLATIONS) REGULATION 1998 - REG 25

25 Compliance plates

(1) The person responsible for the carrying out of autogas work on an autogas installation must attach a compliance plate to the installation after it has been tested unless the certificate of inspection issued as a result of the test indicates that the installation is patently defective.
Contravention of this subclause is an offence and is punishable in accordance with clause 33.

(2) A compliance plate:

(a) must be in the approved form, and

(b) must be constructed of approved material at least 0.5 millimetres thick, and

(c) must have a display area of at least 70 millimetres by 45 millimetres, and

(d) must be attached to the installation in a conspicuous position adjacent to the control valve or other point by which the installation is designed to be connected to a gas cylinder.

(3) A compliance plate must be permanently inscribed, in figures at least 6 millimetres high, with the following information:

(a) the serial number of the certificate of inspection for the installation,

(b) the serial number of the trade certificate held by the person by whom the installation was tested,

(c) the serial number of the repairer’s licence held by the repairer, if any, by whom that person is employed,

(d) the date on which that person tested the installation,

(e) the engine number and vehicle identification number, if any, of the vehicle, vessel or machine to which the installation is fitted.

(4) In the case of a vehicle manufactured before 1 January 1989, the reference in subclause (3) (e) to the vehicle’s vehicle identification number is a reference to the vehicle’s chassis number.