Queensland Consolidated Acts

WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT 2011 - SECT 67

67 Deputy health and safety representatives

(1) Each deputy health and safety representative for a work group is to be elected in the same way as a health and safety representative for the work group.

(2) If the health and safety representative for a work group ceases to hold office or is unable (because of absence or any other reason) to exercise the powers or perform the functions of a health and safety representative under this Act—

(a) the powers and functions may be exercised or performed by a deputy health and safety representative for the work group; and

(b) this Act applies in relation to the deputy health and safety representative as if he or she were the health and safety representative.

(3) Sections 64 , 65 , 66 , 72 and 73 apply to deputy health and safety representatives in the same way as they apply to health and safety representatives.