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South Australia
Work Health and Safety (Representative Assistance)
Amendment Bill 2017
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the
Work
Health and Safety Act 2012
.
Contents
Part 2—Amendment of Work Health and
Safety Act 2012
4Amendment of section 68—Powers and
functions of health and safety representatives
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Work Health and Safety (Representative
Assistance) Amendment Act 2017.
This Act will come into operation 3 months after the day on which it
is assented to by the Governor.
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a
specified Act amends the Act so specified.
Part 2—Amendment
of Work Health and Safety
Act 2012
4—Amendment
of section 68—Powers and functions of health and safety
representatives
(1) Section 68(4)—delete subsection (4) and
substitute:
(4) If a person
assisting a health and safety representative under subsection (2)(g)
requires access to the workplace to provide the assistance, the health and
safety representative must give notice of the assistant's proposed entry
to—
(a) the person conducting the business or undertaking for whom the
representative's workgroup carries out the work at the workplace; and
(b) the person with management or control of the workplace.
(4a) A notice under
subsection (4)
must—
(a) comply with the regulations; and
(b) be given during the usual working hours at the workplace at least
24 hours, but not more than 14 days, before the assistant's
entry.
(2) Section 68(6)—delete subsection (6)