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1995 No. 17 OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY (MARITIME INDUSTRY) REGULATIONS - REG 2

Interpretation
2. (1) In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears:

"Act" means the Occupational Health and Safety (Maritime Industry) Act  1993 ;

"business hours", in relation to a place, means the period from 9.00 a.m. to
5.00 p.m. on a day other than a Saturday, Sunday or a day that is a public
holiday in that place;

"serious personal injury" means an injury to, or disease in, a person:

   (a)  that is caused by an accident at a workplace; and

   (b)  for which the person is:

        (i)    given emergency treatment on the prescribed ship or prescribed
               unit on which the accident occurred; or

        (ii)   given emergency treatment in another place by a registered
               medical practitioner; or

        (iii)  admitted to a hospital; or

        (iv)   treated in a hospital as a casualty, without being admitted to
               the hospital;

"telecommunication" means communication by means of electronic facsimile,
telephone, telex or radio.

(2) A reference in these Regulations to a form by number is a reference to the
form so numbered in the Schedule. 


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