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OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT 2004 - SECT 187

Workplace manslaughter

    (1)     Part 5A as inserted by Part 2 of the amending Act applies to offences alleged to have been committed on or after that insertion.

    (2)     If an offence against section 39G(1) or (2) is alleged to have been committed between 2 dates, one before and one after the insertion of Part 5A, it is alleged to have been committed before that insertion.

    (3)     If an offence against section 144(1) arising in respect of a contravention of section 39G(1) is alleged to have been committed between 2 dates, one before and one after the insertion of Part 5A, it is alleged to have been committed before that insertion.

    (4)     In this section—

"amending Act" means the Workplace Safety Legislation Amendment (Workplace Manslaughter and Other Matters) Act 2019 .

Pt 15 Div. 3 (Heading and s. 188) inserted by No. 16/2020 s. 22.

Division 3—Crimes Amendment (Manslaughter and Related Offences) Act 2020

S. 188 inserted by No. 16/2020 s. 22.



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