Western Australian Consolidated Acts

MINES SAFETY AND INSPECTION ACT 1994 - SECT 39

39 .         State mining engineer may require more than one manager at mine

        (1)         If the State mining engineer is of the opinion that the mining operations of a mine, whether underground or quarry operations, extend over or are separated by such a distance that control and supervision on a daily basis by one underground manager or quarry manager is inadequate, the State mining engineer may, by written notice given to the principal employer of the mine, require the principal employer to appoint an underground manager or a quarry manager to control and supervise on a daily basis such of those operations as the State mining engineer may specify in the notice.

        (1a)         A notice is sufficiently given to the principal employer at a mine for the purposes of subsection (1) if it is given to the registered manager of the mine.

        (2)         A principal employer who fails to comply promptly with a requirement under subsection (1) commits an offence.

        [Section 39 amended by No. 68 of 2004 s. 47.]