99   Notices and labels to be exhibited at depots

(1)  Subject to subclause (2), there must at all times be kept exhibited at an above-ground depot (other than an internal magazine) for the keeping of dangerous goods of the class or description specified in Column 1 of the Table to this clause:

(a)  a notice containing only:

(i)  the words specified in Column 3 of the Table opposite that class or description of dangerous goods, or

(ii)  if “Proper Shipping Name of the goods” is specified, that name, and

(b)  a label setting out the class to which the goods belong.

(2)  A notice or label need not be kept exhibited at a depot for the keeping of dangerous goods of the class or description specified in Column 1 of the Table if the quantity of dangerous goods of that class or description kept in the depot does not exceed the quantity specified in Column 2 of the Table opposite that class or description of dangerous goods.

(3)  At any depot, whether licensed or not, in or on which is kept a quantity of dangerous goods exceeding:

(a)  if the goods kept are of Class 2.2 (not being a cryogenic liquid)—300 cubic metres measured at MSC, or

(b)  if the goods kept are of any other class (or a combination of any other classes)—1 000 kilograms in the case of solids or 1 000 litres in the case of liquids,

      there must at all times be kept exhibited a notice containing the words “Danger No Smoking” and a label setting out the class to which the goods belong and the subsidiary risk, if any, assigned to the goods (aerosols being dangerous goods of Class 2.1 or 2.3 kept in retail outlets are exempt from these requirements).

(4)  At a licensed depot in or on which are kept dangerous goods of subsidiary risk 3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 or 5.1 there must at all times be kept exhibited a notice containing the words “Keep Fire Away”.

(5)  The requirements of this clause relating to the exhibition of notices and labels are additional to each other.

(6)  A notice must be in letters at least 50 millimetres high and conforming to Type B of AS 1744 (Forms of letters and numerals for road signs).

(7)  A notice required to be kept exhibited at a depot for the keeping of dangerous goods of Class 1.1B, 1.1D, 1.2 or 1.3 must be in accordance with AS 2187 (Explosives—Storage, transport and use), Part 1 (Storage).

(8)  A label must have sides of at least 250 millimetres in length and, subject to subclause (7), conform to the specifications for class labels and subsidiary risk labels in the ADG Code.

(9)  The notice and label must be kept exhibited in such a position as to be clearly legible by any person approaching or at the depot, and if there is more than one point of access to the depot, the notice and label must be kept exhibited at each point of access in such a position as to be clearly legible by persons when having access to the depot at that point.

(10)  No writing or sign may be displayed at or near a notice or label required to be exhibited by this clause if the writing or sign contradicts, qualifies or distracts attention from the notice or label.

Contravention of this clause is an offence and is punishable in accordance with clause 340.

Table   Notices to be exhibited at depots

Column 1 Class or description of dangerous goods	Column 2 Exemption quantity (labelling level)	Column 3 Notice to be exhibited
Class 1.1B, 1.4B or 1.4S, being detonators	110	Detonators
Class 1.1, not being detonators	2.5 kg	Explosives
Class 1.2	2.5 kg	Explosives
Class 1.3	2.5 kg	Explosives
Class 1.4, not being detonators or Class 1.4S	200 kg	Explosives
Class 1.4S, not being detonators	1 000 kg	Proper Shipping Name of the goods
Class 1.5	2.5 kg	Explosives
Toy fireworks (regardless of whether they are of Class 1.3G, 1.4G or 1.4S)	1 000 kg	Danger No Smoking; Fireworks; Keep Fire Away
(All Class 1 mass limits are NEQ)
Class 2.1, if liquefied, not being unodorized LP gas	150 kg	Danger No Smoking; Keep Fire Away
Class 2.1, being unodorized LP gas	150 kg	Danger No Smoking; Keep Fire Away; Unodorized LP Gas
Class 2.1, if not liquefied	60 cu m (at MSC)	Danger No Smoking; Keep Fire Away
Class 2.2, not being a cryogenic liquid	300 cu m (at MSC)	Danger No Smoking
Class 2.2, being a cryogenic liquid but including UN No 2187 and UN No 2201	300 cu m (at MSC)	Danger No Smoking; Keep Fire Away; Proper Shipping Name of the goods
Class 2.3, if liquefied	50 kg	Danger No Smoking; Proper Shipping Name of the goods
Class 2.3, if liquefied and with subsidiary risk of 2.1	50 kg	Danger No Smoking; Keep Fire Away; Proper Shipping Name of the goods
Class 2.3, if not liquefied	20 cu m (at MSC)	Danger No Smoking; Proper Shipping Name of the goods
Class 2.3, if not liquefied and with subsidiary risk of 2.1	20 cu m (at MSC)	Danger No Smoking; Keep Fire Away; Proper Shipping Name of the goods
Class 3, Packing Group I	100 L	Danger No Smoking; Keep Fire Away; Proper Shipping Name of the goods
Class 3, Packing Group II or III	1 000 L	Danger No Smoking; Keep Fire Away
Class C1 or C2 combustible liquids	1 000 L	Danger No Smoking; Keep Fire Away
Class 4.1, Packing Group I or nitrocellulose (UN No 2557)	25 kg or L	Danger No Smoking; Keep Fire Away; Proper Shipping Name of the goods
Class 4.1, Packing Group II, being self-reactive substances (UN Nos 3221 to 3240 inclusive)	50 kg or L	Danger No Smoking; Keep Fire Away; Proper Shipping Name of the goods
Class 4.1, Packing Group II, not being self-reactive substances or nitrocellulose, or III	1 000 kg or L	Danger No Smoking; Keep Fire Away
Class 4.2, Packing Group I	25 kg or L	Danger No Smoking; Keep Fire Away; Proper Shipping Name of the goods
Class 4.2, Packing Group II or III	1 000 kg or L	Danger No Smoking; Keep Fire Away
Class 4.3, Packing Group I	25 kg or L	Danger No Smoking; Keep Fire Away; Keep Water Away; Proper Shipping Name of the goods
Class 4.3, Packing Group II or III	1 000 kg or L	Danger No Smoking; Keep Fire Away; Keep Water Away
Class 5.1, Packing Group I	25 kg or L	Danger No Smoking; Keep Fire Away; Proper Shipping Name of the goods
Class 5.1, Packing Group II or III	1 000 kg or L	Danger No Smoking; Keep Fire Away
Class 5.2	1 000 kg or L	Danger No Smoking; Keep Fire Away
Class 6.1, Packing Group I	10 kg or L	Danger No Smoking; Proper Shipping Name of the goods
Class 6.1, Packing Group II or III	1 000 kg or L	Danger No Smoking
Class 8, Packing Group I	50 kg or L	Danger No Smoking; Proper Shipping Name of the goods
Class 8, Packing Group II or III	1 000 kg or L	Danger No Smoking
Class 9	1 000 kg or L	Danger No Smoking

Aerosols being dangerous goods of Class 2.1 or 2.2 kept in retail outlets are exempt from these requirements.