Health and Safety in Employment (Pipelines) Amendment Regulations 2023

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Coat of Arms of New Zealand

Health and Safety in Employment (Pipelines) Amendment Regulations 2023

Cindy Kiro, Governor-General

Order in Council

At Wellington this 22nd day of May 2023

Present:
Her Excellency the Governor-General in Council

These regulations are made under section 211 and clause 2 of Schedule 1 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015—

(a)

on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council; and

(b)

on the recommendation of the Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety made after complying with section 217 of that Act.

Regulations

1 Title

These regulations are the Health and Safety in Employment (Pipelines) Amendment Regulations 2023.

2 Commencement

These regulations come into force on 22 June 2023.

3 Principal regulations

These regulations amend the Health and Safety in Employment (Pipelines) Regulations 1999.

4 Regulation 2 amended (Interpretation)

(1)

In regulation 2, definition of pipeline operation, after “maintenance,”, insert “suspension,”.

(2)

In regulation 2, insert in its appropriate alphabetical order:

safe work instrument means a safe work instrument approved under section 227 of the Act

5 Regulation 8 amended (Design, construction, operation, maintenance, suspension, and abandonment standards)

(1)

In regulation 8(1), replace “parts of— ” with “parts of a relevant safe work instrument.”.

(2)

Revoke regulation 8(1)(a) to (d).

(3)

In regulation 8(2), replace “If the documents referred to in subclause (1) are not applicable” with “If the safe work instrument referred to in subclause (1) is not applicable”.

Rachel Hayward,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Explanatory note

This note is not part of the regulations, but is intended to indicate their general effect.

These regulations, which come into force on 22 June 2023, amend the Health and Safety in Employment (Pipelines) Regulations 1999 (principal regulations). These regulations are made under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015, and clause 2 of Schedule 1 of that Act authorises the amendment of the principal regulations (which were made under the Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992).

Regulation 4 amends the definition of pipeline operation in regulation 2 of the principal regulations by inserting a reference to the suspension of a pipeline. It also inserts a definition of safe work instrument (to support the amendments made by regulation 5).

Regulation 5 amends regulation 8 of the principal regulations by replacing the list of standards set out in current regulation 8(1)(a) to (d) with a reference to a safe work instrument. Safe work instruments are approved under section 227 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015.

Issued under the authority of the Legislation Act 2019.

Date of notification in Gazette: 25 May 2023.

These regulations are administered by the Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment.