New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

PIPELINES REGULATION 2005 - REG 29

29 Periodical audits of safety and operating plans

(1) A licensee must lodge with the Director-General in respect of its safety and operating plan a report on the plan from a nominated auditor that complies with subclause (2):

(a) within the period of 28 days after each anniversary of the grant of the licence, or

(b) within such other periods of a lesser frequency as the Director-General approves in writing in relation to the particular licensee.

Maximum penalty: 10 penalty units.

(2) The report must include a certificate by the nominated auditor that:

(a) the measures implemented to prevent hazardous events identified in the plan from occurring, and intended to protect operating personnel, plant, equipment, the community and the environment should they occur, are being maintained, and

(b) there are properly trained and equipped personnel available to maintain the plan, and

(c) the plan is adequate and appropriate having regard to any changes, since the previous audit certificate was issued, to:

(i) the pipeline (including its apparatus or works), or

(ii) the pipeline’s method of operation, or

(iii) the pipeline’s operating, control or monitoring systems,

that impact on the integrity or reliability of the pipeline, and

(d) any measures to rectify non-compliance with the plan detected in any previous audit have been undertaken and are effective.

(3) The Director-General may, before the expiration of a period within which a certificate must be lodged by a licensee under subclause (1), extend that period by notice in writing if the licensee provides the Director-General with a report from a nominated auditor indicating:

(a) an audit has been carried out, and

(b) any failure to comply with the safety and operating plan, and

(c) the time within which the licensee has undertaken to rectify any such non-compliance, and

(d) the measures that the licensee proposes to take to rectify any such non-compliance.

(4) The Director-General may revoke an approval referred to in subclause (1) in relation to a licensee by notice in writing served on the licensee.

(5) Any such revocation takes effect on the day on which the notice is served or on a later day specified in the notice.