Western Australian Consolidated Regulations

DANGEROUS GOODS SAFETY (SECURITY RISK SUBSTANCES) REGULATIONS 2007 - REG 9

9 .         Licence holders may authorise employees to have access to SRSs

        (1)         A licence holder may authorise an employee of the licence holder to have, in the course of his or her duties, unsupervised access to an SRS in the licence holder’s possession and may cancel such an authorisation at any time.

        (2)         A licence holder must not authorise an employee of the holder to have unsupervised access to an SRS in the licence holder’s possession unless the employee has a security clearance.

        Penalty: a level 2 fine.

        (3)         A licence holder must not authorise an employee of the holder who is not a secure employee of the holder to have access to an SRS in the course of the employee’s duties unless the employee is supervised while having access to the SRS by —

            (a)         the licence holder; or

            (b)         a secure employee of the licence holder acting in the course of the employee’s duties.

        (4)         An employee of a licence holder who, under an authorisation given under this regulation, has access to an SRS in the course of his or her duties may have possession of the SRS in the course of those duties.

        (5)         An employee authorised under subregulation (3) is not authorised by subregulation (4) to have possession unless the employee is supervised as required by subregulation (3).