Western Australian Consolidated Acts

MINES SAFETY AND INSPECTION ACT 1994 - SECT 46A

46A .         Exploration manager, appointment of

        (1)         Before exploration operations begin at a mine, the principal employer must appoint an exploration manager for those operations and, while those operations continue, must ensure that an exploration manager is appointed for those operations.

        (2)         If exploration operations are carried out by a syndicate or other association of persons in such a way that no person is employed in those operations, no exploration manager is required and the members of that entity or partnership or those persons are jointly and severally responsible for the performance of those duties and responsibilities which are, in the circumstances described in section 47A(1), imposed on exploration managers under this Act, so far as those duties and responsibilities apply to an operation without employees.

        (3)         Subsection (1) does not prevent the registered manager for the mine (if there is one) from being appointed as the exploration manager for those operations.

        (4)         A principal employer who contravenes subsection (1) commits an offence.

        [Section 46A inserted by No. 16 of 2008 s. 18.]