Notice Type
Authorities/Other Agencies of State
Notice Title

Compressed Gas Mixtures (Toxic [6.1], Flammable) Group Standard (Amendment) Notice 2008

Pursuant to section 96B of the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996 (“the Act”), the Environmental Risk Management Authority issues the following notice.
N o t i c e
1. Title—(1) This notice is the Compressed Gas Mixtures (Toxic [6.1], Flammable) Group Standard (Amendment) Notice 2008 and is part of the principal notice.
(2) In this notice, “principal notice” means the Compressed Gas Mixtures (Toxic [6.1], Flammable) Group Standard Notice 2006 (published in the Supplement to the
New Zealand Gazette, 30 June 2006, No. 74, at page 2036).
2. Commencement—This notice comes into force 28 days after the date of notification in the New Zealand Gazette.
3. Amendments to principal notice—Omit Schedule 1, clause 22 of the notice:
“Exclusion for substances used as a refrigerant”.
Dated at Wellington this 20th day of November 2008.
For and on behalf of the Environmental Risk Management Authority:
HELEN ATKINS, Deputy Chair.
Explanatory Note
This note is not part of the notice, but is intended to indicate its general effect.
This notice, which comes into force 28 days after the date
of notification in the New Zealand Gazette, amends the Compressed Gas Mixtures (Toxic [6.1], Flammable) Group Standard 2006 to clarify that refrigerating systems are not covered by the Group Standard, but that the gas contained within such systems is.