Western Australian Consolidated Acts

MINES SAFETY AND INSPECTION ACT 1994 - SECT 33A

33A .         Registered manager may make appointments on behalf of principal employer

        (1)         It is sufficient compliance with a provision of section 34(1) or (2), 35(1), 36(1) or (2), 37(1), 38(1), (2) or (3) or 39(2) (a relevant provision ) that requires the principal employer in relation to a mine —

            (a)         to make a particular managerial appointment for the mine; or

            (b)         to inform the district inspector for the region in which the mine is situated concerning the appointment,

                if the appointment is made, or the information is given, on behalf of the principal employer by the registered manager in accordance with authority given by the principal employer to do so.

        (2)         It is open to the registered manager of a mine in exercising a power to appoint —

            (a)         an underground manager; or

            (b)         a quarry manager,

                for the mine under section 35 or 37, to appoint himself or herself to that position.

        (3)         If the registered manager —

            (a)         makes an appointment; or

            (b)         gives information to a district inspector,

                for the purposes of a relevant provision the registered manager is conclusively presumed to do so under and in accordance with authority given by the principal employer.

        (4)         Nothing in this section affects the obligation of the principal employer to comply with a relevant provision.

        [Section 33A inserted by No. 68 of 2004 s. 42.]