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OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT 2004 - SECT 31

Duties of persons installing, erecting or commissioning plant

    (1)     A person who installs, erects or commissions plant who knows, or ought reasonably to know, that the plant is to be used at a workplace must ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that nothing about the way in which the plant is installed, erected or commissioned makes its use unsafe or a risk to health.

Penalty:     1800 penalty units for a natural person;

9000 penalty units for a body corporate.

    (2)     An offence against subsection (1) is an indictable offence.

Note to s. 31(2) amended by No. 68/2009 s. 97(Sch. item 90.10).

Note

However, the offence may be heard and determined summarily (see section 28 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2009 ).



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