Schedule 3 Savings and transitional provisions

(Clause 362)

1   Savings relating to prohibition of chrysotile (white asbestos)

Clauses 159 and 164 do not apply to the supply or use of a product containing chrysotile that was installed and in use before 31 December 2003.

2   Transitional arrangements relating to prohibition of chrysotile (white asbestos)

Clauses 159 and 164 do not apply, until the date specified, to the supply or use of the following items that contain chrysotile:

(a)  until 31 December 2004, compressed asbestos fibre gaskets used with saturated steam or superheated steam or with substances classified as dangerous goods under the Dangerous Goods Act 1975, including goods with corrosive, flammable, very toxic and toxic classifications,

(b)  despite paragraph (a), until 31 December 2006, compressed asbestos fibre gaskets used with chlorine in liquid chlorine service plants with designed process conditions of -45degrees Celsius and 1,500kPa pressure,

(c)  until 31 December 2007, any product consisting of a mixture of asbestos with phenol formaldehyde resin or with creylic formaldehyde resin used in:

(i)  vanes for rotary vacuum pumps, or

(ii)  vanes for rotary compressors, or

(iii)  split face seals of at least 150 millimetres diameter used to prevent leakage of water from cooling water pumps in fossil fuel electricity generating stations,

(d)  until 31 December 2006, diaphragms for use in electrolytic cells used for chlor-alkali manufacture in electrolysis plants in existence on 31 December 2003,

(e)  until 31 December 2007, or such earlier day on which the relevant exemption ceases to have effect, parts and components that are the subject of an exemption granted under Schedule 1B to the Occupational Health and Safety (Commonwealth Employment) (National Standards) Regulations 1994.