Northern Territory Numbered Acts

WORKPLACE HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT 2007 (NO 31 OF 2007) - SECT 75

    (1)     An improvement notice is a notice requiring specified action:

    (a)     to remedy a contravention of this Act; or

    (b)     to prevent the occurrence of an apprehended contravention of this Act.

    (2)     A workplace safety officer may issue an improvement notice against a person if there are reasonable grounds to believe that:

    (a)     the person has contravened, is contravening, or is about to contravene, this Act; and

    (b)     the person should take the action specified in the notice to remedy or prevent the contravention.

    (3)     An improvement notice must:

    (a)     state the grounds for believing that the contravention has occurred, is occurring, or is about to occur (identifying the provision contravened or about to be contravened); and

    (b)     state the action required to remedy or prevent the contravention; and

    (c)     state a reasonable time within which the respondent is required to take the action; and

    (d)     contain a statement, in an approved form, of the respondent's rights of review and appeal.

    (4)     An improvement notice may allow specified alternative ways of complying with the notice.

    (5)     A person against whom an improvement notice is issued who fails to comply with the notice within the time allowed in the notice is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty:     100 penalty units.