Western Australian Consolidated Acts

MINES SAFETY AND INSPECTION ACT 1994 - SECT 31A

31A .         Failure to comply with improvement notice

        (1)         If a person —

            (a)         is issued with an improvement notice; and

            (b)         does not comply with the notice within the time specified in it,

                the person commits an offence.

        (2)         Subsection (1) has effect subject to —

            (a)         the provisions in sections 31B and 31BC for the suspension of notices; and

            (b)         the exercise of the power conferred by section 31BE.

        (3)         No person is precluded by a contract from doing such acts and things as are necessary to comply with an improvement notice or is liable under any contract to any penalty for doing such acts and things.

        [Section 31A inserted by No. 68 of 2004 s. 76.]