Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT (NO. 18 OF 1989)

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART I--PRELIMINARY SHORT TITLE

   1.      This Act may be cited as the Occupational Health and Safety Act 1989.  
   2.      Commencement  
   3.      Objects  
   4.      Position of Crown  
   5.      Interpretation  
   6.      Voluntary workers etc.  
   7.      Exemptions  
   8.      Service of documents etc. on employers  

   PART II--OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY COUNCIL

   9.      Establishment  
   10.     Functions  
   11.     Powers  
   12.     Annual report  
   13.     Membership  
   14.     Terms of appointment  
   15.     Age limit  
   16.     Chairperson and Deputy Chairperson  
   17.     Remuneration and allowances  
   18.     Leave of absence  
   19.     Disclosure of interest  
   20.     Resignation  
   21.     Termination of appointment  
   22.     Acting members  
   23.     Convening meetings  
   24.     Procedure at meetings  
   25.     (1) The Council may constitute such advisory committees as it thinks necessary to assist it in the performance of its functions.  
   26.     Remuneration and allowances  

   PART III--DUTIES RELATING TO OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY

   27.     Duties of employers in relation to employees  
   28.     Duty of employers in relation to third parties  
   29.     Duties of persons in control of workplaces  
   30.     Duties of employees  
   31.     Duties of self-employed persons  
   32.     Duties of manufacturers in relation to plant and substances  
   33.     Duties of suppliers in relation to plant and substances  
   34.     Duties of persons erecting or installing plant in a workplace  
   35.     Reliance on information supplied or results of research  

   PART IV--WORKPLACE ARRANGEMENTS

   36.     Small employers not affected  
   37.     Work groups designated by employers  
   38.     Work groups designated by Registrar  
   39.     Work groups on construction sites  
   40.     Selection  
   41.     Objections to selection  
   42.     Lists of health and safety representatives  
   43.     Powers  
   44.     Access to information  
   45.     Duties of employers  
   46.     Term of office  
   47.     Resignation etc.  
   48.     Disqualification  
   49.     Liability  
   50.     Deputy health and safety representatives  
   51.     Issue  
   52.     Display  
   53.     Compliance  
   54.     Revocation  
   55.     Review  
   56.     Action by health and safety representatives  
   57.     Alternative work  
   58.     Functions  
   59.     Duties of employers  
   60.     Liability  

   PART V--INSPECTORS

   61.     (1) For the purposes of this Part, a thing is connected with a particular offence if—  
   62.     Inspections etc.  
   63.     Consent to entry  
   64.     Notice of removal  
   65.     Return of certain seized articles  
   66.     Search warrants  
   67.     Obstructing inspectors  
   68.     False information  
   69.     (1) For the purposes of this Act, there shall be an Occupational Health and Safety Registrar.  
   70.     Acting Registrar  
   71.     Inspectors  
   72.     Identity cards  
   73.     Return of identity cards  
   74.     Liability  
   75.     Delegation by Registrar  

   PART VI--IMPROVEMENT AND PROHIBITION NOTICES ETC.

   76.     Improvement notices  
   77.     Prohibition notices  
   78.     Directions not to disturb workplace etc.  
   79.     Compliance  

   PART VII--REVIEW OF DECISIONS REVIEWING AUTHORITY

   80.     In this Part, “reviewing authority” means the body or person declared by the regulations to be the reviewing authority.  
   81.     Reviewable decisions  
   82.     Eligible persons  
   83.     Reconsideration of inspectors' decisions  
   84.     Review of decisions  

   PART VIII--MISCELLANEOUS NOTICE OF ACCIDENTS ETC.

   85.     (1) Where, at or near a workplace at which an undertaking is being conducted by an employer, there is, arising out of the conduct of the undertaking—  
   86.     Records of accidents etc.  
   87.     Codes of practice  
   88.     Protected information  
   89.     Interfering with safety equipment  
   90.     Interfering with workplace notices  
   91.     Employer not to levy employees  
   92.     Employer not to discriminate  
   93.     Conduct of directors, servants and agents  
   94.     Contracting out prohibited  
   95.     Civil liability not affected  
   96.     Inconsistency with associated laws  
   97.     Regulations  
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