Western Australian Consolidated Regulations

DANGEROUS GOODS SAFETY (EXPLOSIVES) REGULATIONS 2007 - REG 206

206 .         Compliance with AE Code Second Edition a defence until 1 January 2010

        (1)         In this regulation —

        AEC 2 means the Australian Code for the Transport of Explosives by Road and Rail , Second Edition 2000, published by the Commonwealth of Australia (ISBN 0 642 41486 6) including (for the avoidance of doubt) its technical appendices.

        (2)         It is a defence to a charge of an offence against these regulations that is constituted by a contravention of a provision of the AE Code and alleged to have occurred before 1 January 2010 to prove the act or omission alleged would not have contravened AEC 2.

        [Regulation 206 inserted in Gazette 24 Nov 2009 p. 4740.]