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WORKPLACE INJURY MANAGEMENT AND WORKERS COMPENSATION ACT 1998 - SECT 63

Register of injuries

63 Register of injuries

(cf former s 90)

(1) There is to be kept at every mine, quarry, factory, workshop, office or shop in some readily accessible place a register of injuries.
(2) A worker employed at any such mine, quarry, factory, workshop, office or shop, or any person acting on the worker's behalf, may enter in the register of injuries particulars of any injury received by the worker.
(3) The regulations may prescribe the form of a register of injuries and the particulars to be entered in the register.
(4) If particulars of an injury are duly entered in a register of injuries as soon as possible after an injury happened, the entry is sufficient notice of the injury for the purposes of this Act.
(5) If subsection (1) is contravened, the manager of the mine or quarry, or the occupier of the factory, workshop, office or shop, is guilty of an offence and liable to a penalty not exceeding 50 penalty units.



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