Queensland Consolidated Acts

PETROLEUM (SUBMERGED LANDS) ACT 1982 - SECT 14A

(1) The prescribed occupational health and safety laws do not apply in relation to any of the following—

(a) a facility;

(b) a person at a facility;

(c) a person near a facility, to the extent the person is affected by—

(i) a facility; or

(ii) activities taking place at a facility;

(d) activities taking place at a facility.

(2) For subsection (1), a reference to the prescribed occupational health and safety laws is a reference to the provisions of those laws that, if subsection (1) did not apply, would apply in the adjacent area because of section 14, the cooperative scheme under the Crimes at Sea Act 2001 or the Acts Interpretation Act 1954, section 9.

(3) In this section—

facility see schedule 3, section 2.

prescribed occupational health and safety laws means any of the following to the extent they relate to occupational health and safety—

(b) the Electrical Safety Act 2002;

(c) the Explosives Act 1999;

(d) the Petroleum Act 1923;

(e) Work Health and Safety Act 2011;

(f) another law of the State that—

(i) relates to occupational health and safety, whether or not it also relates to other matters; and

(ii) is prescribed for the purpose of this paragraph.

(4) Unless it is repealed sooner, a regulation made for the purpose of subsection (3)(f) expires 1 year after it commences.

(5) If a regulation is made for the purpose of subsection (3)(f), a later regulation having the same effect may not be made.

(6) This section applies despite section 14(1) and (2).