Pursuant to section 160A of the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996, the Environmental Risk Management Authority amends the Hazardous Substances (Sodium Fluoroacetate) Transfer Notice 2004 (Supplements to the New Zealand Gazette, 17 June 2005, No. 92, page 2165, and New Zealand Gazette, 21 June 2006, No. 62, page 1475) (“the notice”) as set out in the Schedule below.
1. Title—This notice is the Hazardous Substances (Sodium Fluoroacetate) (Amendment) Transfer Notice (No 2) 2006.
2. Commencement—These amendments come into force on 1 July 2006.
Schedule
In Schedule 2 to the notice:
1. in the change to controls for New Regulation 9A, omit subclause (3) and substitute the following:
“(3) Subclause (1)(c):
(a) applies to pilots, aircrew, and airline ground personnel loading and handling a hazardous substance within an aerodrome; but
(b) does not apply to the storage and handling of a hazardous substance in any place that is not within an aerodrome, or within an aerodrome by non-airline ground personnel.”
2. immediately after the change to controls for New Regulation 9A, insert the following:
“New regulation 9B The regulations apply to each hazardous substance described in Schedule 1 as if the following regulation were inserted immediately after regulation 9A:
9B Exception to approved handler requirement for aerial application of certain substances
Regulation 9 is deemed to be complied with if, in the case of the aerial application of a hazardous substance, the person who carries out the application has a current pilot chemical rating in accordance with Part 61 of the Civil Aviation Rules.”