Dangerous Goods Amendment Act 1978

Public Act		1978 No 16
Date of assent		9 August 1978

	Title
1	Short Title and commencement
2	Act to be administered in Department of Labour
3	Pumps for reselling dangerous goods
	Administrative information

An Act to amend the Dangerous Goods Act 1974

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1 Short Title and commencement

(1)

This Act may be cited as the Dangerous Goods Amendment Act 1978, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Dangerous Goods Act 1974 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

(2)

Section 2 of this Act shall come into force on a date to be appointed by the Governor-General by Order in Council.

(3)

Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, this Act shall come into force on the day on which it receives the Governor-General’s assent.

2 Act to be administered in Department of Labour

(1)

Section 2 of the principal Act is hereby amended—

(a)

By omitting from the definition of the term “Minister” the words “Internal Affairs”, and substituting the word “Labour”:

(b)

By omitting from the definition of the term “Secretary” the words “for Internal Affairs”, and substituting the words “of Labour”.

(2)

The First Schedule to the Labour Department Act 1954 (as substituted by section 3(1) of the Labour Department Amendment Act 1970) is hereby amended by inserting, after the reference to the Construction Act 1959, the words “The Dangerous Goods Act 1974.”.

(3)

Every act of authority done by the Minister of Internal Affairs or the Secretary for Internal Affairs or the Department of Internal Affairs pursuant to the Dangerous Goods Act 1974 or to any regulation, rule, order, notice, or other authority under that Act, and subsisting at the commencement of this section, shall continue and have effect after the commencement of this section as if, in the case of an act done by the Minister of Internal Affairs, it had been done by the Minister of Labour and, in the case of an act done by the Secretary for Internal Affairs or the Department of Internal Affairs, it had been done by the Secretary of Labour.

(4)

So much of the amount appropriated by any Appropriation Act to the services of Vote Internal Affairs for the year ending with the 31st day of March 1979 as relates to the administration of the Dangerous Goods Act 1974 for that year and remains unexpended at the commencement of this section may be expended by the Department of Labour to defray the expenses of administering that Act.

3 Pumps for reselling dangerous goods

Section 30 of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after subsection (1), the following subsection:

“(1a)

No person shall deliver dangerous goods of Class 2(d) for retail sale for the purpose of refuelling fuel tanks attached to, or forming an integral part of, a motor vehicle other than by means of a pump unit of a kind to which the Chief Inspector has given his approval by notice in the Gazette and which complies with any prescribed requirements and with the terms of the approval.”

This Act is administered in the Department of Labour.

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