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Plant Design Registration - New South Wales

Description

You may need to register your plant design if you are in management or control of an item of plant, or if you have designed an item of plant. Plant includes:

  • any machinery, equipment, appliance, container, implement and tool
  • any component of those things
  • anything fitted or connected to any of those things.

Items of plant that must have their design registered include:

  • vehicle hoists
  • certain amusement devices
  • building maintenance units
  • concrete placing booms
  • prefabricated scaffolding
  • mast climbing work platforms
  • work boxes suspended from cranes
  • boom type elevating work platforms
  • lifts, escalators and moving walkways
  • mobile cranes with a rated capacity of greater than 10 tonnes
  • tower crane including self-erecting town cranes
  • boilers and pressure vessels with a hazard level of A, B, C or D
  • hoists with platform movement of more than 2.4 metres designed to lift people
  • passenger ropeways
  • gantry cranes.

Manufacturers, importers, and suppliers of plant are prohibited from supplying plant unless the design of that plant is registered. Registration may not be required if the plant design is registered in another state.

Service type

Licence

A licence defines the need to obtain recognition / certification and registration to undertake a certain business activity.

Eligibility requirements

To be eligible for this registration you must:

  • provide a signed statement that you have complied with your obligations, and specify the published technical standards and engineering principles used in the design
  • provide representation drawings of the design
  • provide a statement from a design verifier
  • provide a declaration that you do not hold an equivalent registration under a corresponding work health and safety law
  • provide any other information required by the Agency.

Duration

Perpetual

Fees

Fees Details for this service in table format.

Task Type Business Structure Amount Description
Apply Application All $308.00 Fees for 2022-23
General Duplicate Certificate All $37.00 Licence replacement. Fees for 2022-23

Forms

Act(s) name

Work Health and Safety Act 2011 New South Wales

Regulation(s) name

Work Health and Safety Regulation 2017 New South Wales

Lodgement process

Apply

Important

A fee must be paid prior to lodgement of the application form. When the lodgement fee is paid online, you will receive a receipt number which must be included in your application form.

Administering agency

Department of Customer Service

SafeWork NSW

Contact details

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