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WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATION 2011 - REG 234

Duty of persons conducting businesses or undertakings that commission plant

    (1)     This section applies to a person who conducts a business or undertaking that commissions plant.

    (2)     The person must not commission an item of plant that is stated in schedule 5, part 5.2 (Items of plant requiring registration) for use in a workplace unless that item of plant is registered under part 5.3 (Registration of plant designs and items of plant).

Maximum penalty:

        (a)     in the case of an individual—$6 000; or

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

Note     Strict liability applies to each physical element of each offence under this regulation, unless otherwise stated (see  s 6A).

    (3)     Nothing in subsection (2) prevents a person from performing any necessary adjustments, tests or inspections as part of the commissioning process before the plant is commissioned at a workplace.



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