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Reprint as at 16 October 2008

Health and Safety in Employment (Pressure Equipment, Cranes, and Passenger Ropeways) Regulations 1999

(SR 1999/128)

Note

Changes authorised by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 have been made in this eprint.

A general outline of these changes is set out in the notes at the end of this eprint, together with other explanatory material about this eprint.

These regulations are administered in the Department of Labour.

PURSUANT to section of the Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, makes the following regulations.

Contents

1 Title and commencement

2 Interpretation

3 Meaning of controller

4 Meaning of equipment

5 Exemptions for controllers, designers, manufacturers, or suppliers

6 Exemptions for equipment

7 Relationship between Act and regulations

Part 1
Duties of controllers

8 Information to be held by controller

9 Accident notification

Operation of equipment

10 Duties in relation to operation

Repairs or alterations

11 Duties in relation to repairs or alterations

Part 2
Duties in relation to unsafe equipment

12 Employee's duty

13 Investigation of potentially unsafe equipment

14 Notification of type fault

15 Correction of type fault

Part 3
Duties of designers, manufacturers, and suppliers

16 Relationship to duties in Health and Safety in Employment Regulations 1995

17 Sufficient compliance with duties in regulations 18 to 20

18 Duties relating to design and design verification

19 Duties relating to manufacture and fabrication inspection

20 Duties relating to supply

Duties relating to provision of information

21 Duties relating to provision of information

Part 4
Administrative provisions

22 Sufficient compliance with functions in regulations 23 to 35

23 Recognition procedures

Inspection bodies

24 Inspection bodies: functions

25 Inspection bodies: recognition

Design verifiers and equipment inspectors

26 Design verifiers

27 Equipment inspectors

Quality management systems

28 Quality management systems

Qualification issuing agencies

29 Qualification issuing agencies

Part 5
Certificates

Design verification

30 Certificates of design verification

31 Contents of certificate of design verification

32 Issue and renewal of certificate of inspection

33 Term and contents of certificate of inspection

34 Suspension or cancellation of certificate of inspection

35 Certificates of competence

36 Duties of controllers and inspection bodies in relation to certificates of competence

Transitional arrangements

37 Certificates of inspection

38 Certificates of competence

Part 6
Offences

39 Offences and penalties

Schedule 1
Interpretation

Schedule 2
Equipment excluded from regulations

Explanatory note

Gazette information