Queensland Consolidated Acts

MINING AND QUARRYING SAFETY AND HEALTH ACT 1999 - SECT 49

49 Appointment of site senior executive

(1) An operator for a mine or for a separate part of a mine must not appoint more than 1 site senior executive for the mine or for the part for which the person is operator.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—500 penalty units.

(2) An operator must not appoint a person to be site senior executive for more than 1 mine.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—500 penalty units.

(3) However, a person may be appointed to be site senior executive for more than 1 mine if—

(a) the mines are part of a mining project; or

(b) the mines consist only of exploration activities under an exploration permit, mineral development licence or mining lease; or

(c) the mines are adjacent and operations for winning or treating minerals or hard rock are carried on at only 1 of the mines; or

(d) the mines comprise mines forming part of a mining project and adjacent mines, and the adjacent mines consist only of exploration activities under an exploration permit, mineral development licence or mining lease; or

(e) not more than 10 workers are employed at each mine.

(4) If more than 10 workers are employed at a mine or the mine is prescribed by regulation to be a mine to which this subsection applies, an operator for the mine must not appoint a person to be site senior executive for the mine, or a separate part of the mine, unless the person holds both of the following board qualifications—

(a) a site senior executive notice;

(b) the practising certificate required by the board of examiners to be held by a person holding the board qualification mentioned in paragraph (a) .

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—500 penalty units.

(5) A regulation may prescribe a mine to be a mine to which subsection (4) applies because of the size, nature or complexities of the mine’s operations.

(6) In this section—

"appoint" includes employ and purport to appoint.