Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations

WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS 2011 - REG 196

    An importer of plant must:

  (a)   take all reasonable steps to obtain:

  (i)   the information that would be required to be provided by a manufacturer under paragraphs   23(4)(a) and (c) of the Act; and

  (ii)   the information that would be required to be provided by the designer of the plant to the manufacturer under regulations   187 and 188; and

  (b)   give that information to any person to whom the importer supplies the plant.

Penalty:

  (a)   In the case of an individual--$3   600.

  (b)   In the case of a body corporate--$18   000.

Note:   Section   12F of the Act provides that strict liability applies to each physical element of each offence under the Act, unless otherwise stated. The reference in section   12F of the Act includes these Regulations.