An Act to provide for the regulation and inspection of construction work and to consolidate the Acts controlling scaffolding and lifts.
This Act may be cited as the Construction Safety Act 1912.
This Act is divided as follows:
• Part 1—Preliminary—sections 1–5A
• Part 2—Notification of certain work—sections 6–10
• Part 3—Inspection—sections 13–16
• Part 4—Certificates of competency—sections 17–17B
• Part 5—Miscellaneous—sections 18–22
• First Schedule
The Acts mentioned in the First Schedule are hereby repealed.
(Repealed)
All regulations duly made under the Acts hereby repealed, and in force at the time of the passing of this Act, shall be deemed to have been duly made under the provisions of this Act, and as if this Act had been in force when the same were made.
All notices, orders, and authorities duly given, and all certificates duly granted, and all acts and things duly done under the Acts hereby repealed and in force, existing, or operating at the time of the passing of this Act, shall continue to be of the same force and effect as if this Act had been in force at the time the same were respectively given, granted, or done, and they had been given, granted, or done under the corresponding provisions of this Act, and this Act shall apply to them accordingly.
In this Act, unless the context or subject-matter otherwise requires:
(a) anything that:
(i) is not power-operated, or
(ii) may only be operated by manual power,
unless a fee is payable for its use, or for entry therein or thereon, or for entry to the place where it is situated,
(b) a conveyor, crane, escalator, hoist, lift or moving walk,
(c) a railway system in so far as it uses a locomotive for its motive power and has a track gauge of 600 mm or more,
(d) a registrable vehicle within the meaning of the Road Transport (Vehicle Registration) Act 1997,
(e) a vessel used on waters navigable for the purpose of trade,
(f) an aircraft subject to the regulations made under the Air Navigation Act 1920 of the Parliament of the Commonwealth and any Act amending or replacing that Act, or
(g) anything prescribed as being excluded from this definition.
(a) work in constructing, erecting, installing, adding to, altering, repairing, equipping, finishing, painting, cleaning, signwriting, sheathing, spraying, dismantling or demolishing or any other prescribed operation that:
(i) is done in relation to a building or structure, at…