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OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH AMENDMENT BILL 1999

                               Western Australia



                          LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY

                           (Introduced by Dr Gallop)


             Occupational Safety and Health
                 Amendment Bill 1999
                                   A Bill for


    An Act to amend the Occupational Safety and Health Act 1984.



    The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:


    1.      Short title
            This Act may be cited as the Occupational Safety and Health
            Amendment Act 1999.




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     2.       Commencement
              This Act commences on 1 July 2000.

     3.       Principal Act
              In this Act the Occupational Safety and Health Act 1984* is
 5            referred to as the principal Act.
              [* Reprinted as at 15 May 1996.
                 For subsequent amendments see 1998 Index to Legislation of
                 Western Australia, Table 1, p. 176.]

     4.       Section 3 amended
10            Subsection (1) of section 3 of the principal Act is amended
              by --
                (a) inserting after paragraph (b) in the definition of
                     "employee" the following --
                     " (c) a police officer; ";
15             (b) inserting after paragraph (b) in the definition of
                     "employer" the following --
                     " (c) a person by whom a police officer is employed;
                                                                             ";
                (c) inserting after the definition of "plant" the following --
20                   " "police officer" has the meaning given by section 5
                            of the Interpretation Act 1984; "; and




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    (d)   inserting after the definition of "transferred law" the
          following --
           " "work" in relation to a police officer means any
                 period of time during which a police officer is
5                performing a duty or function of his or her
                 office;
                                                                    ".




 


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