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WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS 2012 - REG 458

458—Duty to ensure asbestos removalist is licensed

        (1)         A person conducting a business or undertaking that commissions the removal of asbestos must ensure that the asbestos removal work is carried out by a licensed asbestos removalist who is licensed to carry out the work.

Maximum penalty:

            (a)         In the case of an individual—$6 000.

            (b)         In the case of a body corporate—$30 000.

        (2)         Subregulation (1) does not apply if the asbestos to be removed is—

            (a)         10 square metres or less of non-friable asbestos or ACD associated with the removal of that amount of non-friable asbestos; or

            (b)         ACD that is not associated with the removal of friable or non-friable asbestos and is only a minor contamination.

        (3)         If subregulation (2) applies, the person conducting the business or undertaking that commissions the asbestos removal work must ensure that the work is carried out by a competent person who has been trained in accordance with regulation 445.

Maximum penalty:

            (a)         In the case of an individual—$6 000.

            (b)         In the case of a body corporate—$30 000.



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