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OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY (MARITIME INDUSTRY) ACT 1993 - SECT 71

Resignation etc. of health and safety representatives

  (1)   A person must stop being the health and safety representative for the designated work group if:

  (a)   the person resigns as the health and safety representative; or

  (b)   the person stops being an employee included in the designated work group; or

  (c)   the person's term of office ends without the person having been selected, under section   41, to be the health and safety representative for the designated work group for a further term; or

  (d)   the person is disqualified under section   72.

  (2)   A person may resign as the health and safety representative for a designated work group:

  (a)   if the person was last selected as the health and safety representative in an election conducted by an involved union in relation to the group--by written notice given to:

  (i)   the involved union that nominated the person as a candidate in the election; and

  (ii)   the person in command; and

  (b)   in any other case--by written notice given to the person in command.

  (3)   If the person in command receives a notice of resignation under paragraph   ( 2)(b), the person in command must cause a copy of the notice to be displayed in a prominent place at the workplace.



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