New South Wales Repealed Regulations

This legislation has been repealed.

GAS SUPPLY (SAFETY AND NETWORK MANAGEMENT) REGULATION 2008 - REG 10

10 Network operators to lodge and implement safety and operating plans

(1) A network operator must:

(a) lodge with the Director-General a safety and operating plan for its gas network that complies with the requirements of this Regulation, and

(b) implement that plan.

Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units (in the case of a corporation) and 25 penalty units (in any other case).

(2) The safety and operating plan must be lodged:

(a) within 6 months from the date of the grant of the authorisation or licence to operate the gas network to which the plan relates, or

(b) within such further period as may be approved by the Director-General in writing.

(3) The safety and operating plan:

(a) must be in writing (but may include diagrams), and

(b) must be approved of in writing by an officer of the network operator who is competent and specifically authorised by the network operator to do so.

(4) A network operator must not construct, alter, extend, maintain, repair or operate a gas network except in accordance with:

(a) a safety and operating plan, or

(b) a draft safety and operating plan (being a plan that complies with the requirements of this Regulation relating to the form and content, and review and availability, of safety and operating plans but which has not yet been audited in accordance with clause 14) that has been lodged with the Director-General.

(5) Nothing in subclause (4) affects the requirement made by subclause (2).

(6) The Director-General has the same powers under this Part in relation to a draft safety and operating plan as the Director-General has in relation to a safety and operating plan.