DANGEROUS GOODS ACT 1985 - SECT 58 Procedural matters concerning codes of practice

DANGEROUS GOODS ACT 1985 - SECT 58

    (1)     The Minister must cause to be published in the Government Gazette notices of—

        (a)     the approval of a code of practice;

        (b)     the approval of a revision of the whole or any part of a code of practice;

        (c)     the revocation of approval of a code of practice.

S. 58(2) amended by No. 13/1996 s. 20.

    (2)     The Minister must cause a copy—

        (a)     of every approved code of practice;

        (b)     if an approved code of practice has been revised and that revision has been approved, of every approved code of practice as so revised;

        (c)     if an approved code of practice applies, incorporates or refers to any other document, of every such document—

to be made available for inspection by members of the public without charge at the office of the Authority during normal office hours.

    (3)     An approved code of practice comes into effect—

        (a)     on the day on which notice of approval of the code of practice is published in the Government Gazette or on such later day as is specified in the notice; or

        (b)     if the code of practice has been revised in whole or in part, to the extent of that revision on the day on which notice of approval of that revision is published in the Government Gazette or on such later day as is specified in the notice.

    (4)     An approved code of practice ceases to be of effect at the end of the day on which notice of the revocation of approval of the code of practice is published in the Government Gazette.

S. 59 inserted by No. 78/1995 s. 7.