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OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY (MARITIME INDUSTRY) ACT 1993 - SECT 81

Directions to perform other work

    If an employee has stopped performing work, in accordance with a direction by a health and safety representative under paragraph   80(1)(b), not being a stoppage of work that continues after:

  (a)   the health and safety representative has agreed with the supervisor or the person in command that the stoppage of work was not, or is no longer, necessary; or

  (b)   an inspector has, under subsection   80(5), made a decision that has the effect that the employee should perform the work;

the person in command may direct the employee to perform suitable alternative work, and the employee is to be taken, for all purposes, to be required to perform that other work under the terms and conditions of the employee's employment.



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