Western Australian Consolidated Acts

DANGEROUS GOODS SAFETY ACT 2004 - SECT 6

6 .         Relationship with other laws

        (1)         This Act does not apply to a pipeline, carrying dangerous goods, to which the Gas Standards Act 1972 , Petroleum Pipelines Act 1969 or Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1982 applies.

        (2)         If another written law applies to or in respect of dangerous goods, that law applies in addition to this Act, unless subsection (3) or (4) applies or this Act expressly provides otherwise.

        (3)         If a provision of this Act conflicts or is inconsistent with a provision of another written law that applies to or in relation to dangerous goods, the provision of this Act prevails, unless subsection (4) applies.

        (4)         If a provision of this Act conflicts or is inconsistent with a provision of another written law that applies to or in relation to dangerous goods of a category that is prescribed for the purposes of this subsection by regulations made under this Act, the provision of the other written law prevails.