Western Australian Consolidated Acts

MINES SAFETY AND INSPECTION ACT 1994 - SECT 62

62 .         Regulations about time off work for representatives

        (1)         The regulations may prescribe the entitlements of a safety and health representative for the purposes of —

            (a)         performing the functions that the representative is required to perform under this Act; and

            (b)         the attendance of the representative at courses of training in occupational safety and health accredited under section 14(1)(h) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act 1984 ,

                but the entitlements for those purposes may be varied, in a way not less favourable to the safety and health representative than that prescribed in the regulations, by agreement with the employer concerned or by a determination made by the Tribunal upon a reference made to the Tribunal under this section by the employer, the safety and health representative, or the State mining engineer.

        (2)         In subsection (1) —

        entitlements means —

            (a)         the time that a safety and health representative is to be permitted to take off work with pay and other benefits; and

            (b)         payments to which a safety and health representative is entitled for attendance at a course of training in his or her own time.

        [Section 62 amended by No. 30 of 1995 s. 65 and 76(1) and (4); No. 68 of 2004 s. 61 and 84.]

        [Heading amended by No. 57 of 1997 s. 88(1).]