Western Australian Consolidated Acts

MINES SAFETY AND INSPECTION ACT 1994 - SECT 47A

47A .         Exploration manager to be treated as manager in certain circumstances

        (1)         If exploration operations at a mine are not under the control of a registered manager because a registered manager is not required under section 33(7) for those operations and no notice has been given under section 47(1), then, for the purposes of this Act, the exploration manager appointed for those operations is to be treated as a manager of a mine in respect of those operations, to the extent to which that is relevant to those operations.

        (2)         Subsection (1) does not apply to exploration operations to which section 46A(2) applies.

        [Section 47A inserted by No. 16 of 2008 s. 20.]