Registration process for plant designs

A registration holder must keep the registration document issued available for inspection under the Act.

Subregulation (1) does not apply if the registration document is not in the registration holder’s possession because — (a) it has been returned to the regulator under regulation 287; or (b) the registration holder has applied for, but has not received, a replacement registration document under regulation 288.

Subject to this regulation, the regulator must not disclose to any person any confidential information provided by an applicant for registration of a design of an item of plant.

The regulator may disclose information about a plant design in either of the following circumstances — (a) to a corresponding regulator or an authorised officer of a corresponding regulator, at the request of the corresponding regulator; (b) to any person authorised by the applicant for the registration of the design.

The regulator may give a copy of the design verification statement to — (a) workers engaged by the person with management or control at a workplace of plant manufactured to the design; or (b) a health and safety representative of those workers.

The regulator may provide the person with management or control of plant with the minimum information about the plant design that is necessary for the safe operation of the plant if the registration holder for the design of the plant cannot be located or no longer exists.

The person with management or control of plant at a workplace for which a plant design is registered must ensure that the design registration number is kept readily accessible in the vicinity of the plant at all times.

If the regulator registers a design of an item of plant, the regulator must issue to the applicant a registration document in the form determined by the regulator.