Northern Territory Numbered Acts

WORKPLACE HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT 2007 (NO 31 OF 2007) - SECT 42

    (1)     An employer must, on request by a health and safety representative:

    (a)     allow the representative to attend an appropriate approved course of training for health and safety representatives; and

    (b)     allow the representative the necessary time off work to attend the course on full pay; and

    (c)     pay reasonable costs associated with the representative's attendance at the course.

    (2)     An employer is not obliged to comply with such a request from the same representative more than once in each year.

    (3)     The course of training must be a course:

    (a)     conducted or approved by the Authority; and

    (b)     agreed as appropriate by the employer and the representative or, in default of agreement, determined to be appropriate by the Authority.

    (4)     If an employer fails to comply with the employer's obligations under this section, the employer is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty:     20 penalty units.