Victorian Numbered Regulations

EQUIPMENT (PUBLIC SAFETY) REGULATIONS 2017 (SR NO 23 OF 2017) - REG 6

    (1)     For the purposes of the Act and these Regulations the following types of equipment are declared to be prescribed equipment—

        (a)         subject to subregulation (2), equipment that processes material by way of a mechanical action that—

              (i)     cuts, drills, punches or grinds the material; or

              (ii)     presses, forms, hammers, joins or moulds the material; or

              (iii)     combines, mixes, sorts, packages, assembles, knits or weaves the material—

including equipment where the functions referred to in subparagraphs (i), (ii) and (iii) are incidental to the main purpose of the equipment;

        (b)     subject to subregulation (2), equipment that lifts or moves persons or materials (other than a ship, boat, aircraft or vehicle designed to be used primarily as a means of transport on a public road or by rail);

        (c)     pressure equipment;

        (d)     tractors;    

        (e)     earthmoving machinery;

        (f)     lasers;

        (g)     scaffolds;    

        (h)     temporary access equipment;    

              (i)     explosive-powered tools;

        (j)     turbines;    

        (k)     amusement structures.

Example

An example of materials under subregulation (1)(b) includes objects and substances such as empty receptacles, bins, landfill rubbish, metals and soil.

    (2)     Subregulations (1)(a) and (1)(b) do not include—

        (a)     equipment that relies exclusively on manual power for its operation; or

        (b)     equipment that is designed to be primarily supported by hand.

    (3)     Unless specified otherwise, these Regulations apply to all prescribed equipment irrespective of the date on which the prescribed equipment was manufactured.