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OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ACT 1984 - SECT 51AH

51AH .         Review of notice by inspector

        (1)         In this section —

        affected person means —

            (a)         the person issued with a provisional improvement notice; or

            (b)         in the case of a notice issued to an employee —

                  (i)         the employee; and

                  (ii)         the employer of the employee.

        (2)         An affected person may, in writing delivered or sent to the department (a review notice ), require that an inspector review a provisional improvement notice.

        (3)         A review notice —

            (a)         may be sent —

                  (i)         by letter addressed to, and posted to a place of business of, the department; or

                  (ii)         by transmission to a facsimile number used by the department; or

                  (iii)         by electronic data transmission to an email address used by the department;

                and

            (b)         must be received by the department not later than the day specified in the provisional improvement notice for the purposes of section 51AE(1)(d).

        (4)         The operation of the provisional improvement notice is suspended by the receipt by the department of a review notice in accordance with this section.

        (5)         Where a review notice is received by the department in accordance with this section, an inspector must as soon as is practicable —

            (a)         attend at the workplace; and

            (b)         inquire into the circumstances relating to the notice,

                and having done so may —

            (c)         affirm the notice; or

            (d)         affirm the notice with modifications; or

            (e)         cancel the notice.

        (6)         If an inspector affirms a provisional improvement notice, with or without modifications, the notice as so affirmed has effect as if it had been issued by the inspector under section 48.

        [Section 51AH inserted by No. 51 of 2004 s. 55.]

        [Heading inserted by No. 30 of 1995 s. 39.]



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