South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts59—Registration of employers
(1) Subject to
subsection (2), an employer shall not employ a worker in employment to
which this Act applies unless the employer is registered by the Corporation.
Maximum penalty: $10 000 for each worker so employed.
(2) An employer is not
required to be registered if the employer is exempted by the regulations from
the obligation to be registered.
(3) No offence is
committed by an employer against this section if the employer applies for
registration within 14 days after the obligation to be registered arises.
(4) It is a defence to
a prosecution for an offence under subsection (1) in respect of the
employment of a particular worker if the court is satisfied that at the time
of the alleged offence the employer believed on reasonable grounds that the
worker's employment was not connected with this State by virtue of the
operation of section 6.
(5) If the employer's
belief on reasonable grounds was that under section 6 the worker's
employment was connected with another State, subsection (4) does not
apply unless at the time of the alleged offence the employer had
workers compensation cover in respect of the worker under the law of that
other State.
(6) In this
section—
"State" includes a Territory;
"workers compensation cover" means insurance or registration required under
the law of a State in respect of liability for statutory workers compensation
under that law.