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Health Act 1956

Regulations

119: Regulations as to noxious substances and gases and dangerous goods

You could also call this:

"Safety rules for handling harmful substances and equipment"

The laws made under the Health Act 1956 can cover things like how to handle and store substances that can harm people's health. You need to be careful when dealing with these substances, and the laws can say what precautions to take and what protective clothing to wear. The laws can also limit the hours people work with these substances and require medical check-ups.

The laws can stop or limit the sale of things that can harm people's health, like equipment that uses poisonous substances. They can also control the use and sale of things that give off electromagnetic radiation, which is a kind of energy that can come from some equipment. This can include licensing people or premises that use or sell this kind of equipment.

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Part 6Regulations

119Regulations as to noxious substances and gases and dangerous goods

  1. Regulations made under this Act may provide for all or any of the following matters:

  2. the regulation of the handling, storage, and disposal of noxious substances or of goods that are or may become injurious to health or dangerous; the precautions to be taken in respect thereof, and the protective clothing to be provided for and used by persons or classes of persons engaged therein; the modification or limitation of the hours of employment, and the medical examination, of any such persons as aforesaid; and the prohibition or restriction of the employment of young persons therein:
    1. the prohibition or restriction of the sale, for domestic use, of any apparatus or equipment that is or may be injurious to health or dangerous, or that involves the use of any poisonous or noxious substance in such a manner as to be likely to cause injury to health or danger:
        1. the prohibition, restriction, or regulation, of the use, sale, or supply of any apparatus or equipment which may emit electromagnetic radiation (other than X-rays or gamma rays), and the licensing or registration of persons, premises, or things in relation to any such use, sale, or supply.

          Notes
          • Section 119(c): repealed, on , by section 56(2) of the Clean Air Act 1972 (1972 No 31).
          • Section 119(d): inserted, on , by section 3 of the Health Amendment Act 1971 (1971 No 100).