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WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT 2012 - SECT 156

156—Appointment of inspectors

        (1)         The regulator may, by instrument, appoint any of the following as an inspector:

            (a)         a public sector employee under the Public Sector Act 2009 ;

            (b)         the holder of a statutory office;

            (c)         a person who is appointed as an inspector or authorised officer under a corresponding WHS law;

            (d)         a person in a prescribed class of persons.

        (2)         Without limiting subsection (1), the following persons will be taken to have been appointed as inspectors:

            (a)         in relation to mines to which the Mines and Works Inspection Act 1920 applies—an inspector of mines under that Act;

            (b)         in relation to operations to which the Offshore Minerals Act 2000 applies—an inspector under that Act;

            (c)         in relation to operations to which the Petroleum and Geothermal Energy Act 2000 applies—an authorised officer under that Act;

            (d)         in relation to operations to which the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1982 applies—an inspector under that Act;

            (e)         any other person who may exercise statutory powers under another Act brought within the ambit of this subsection by the regulations.



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