Inspection of Machinery Regulations (Amendment) (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Regulations    1986    No. 8¹

Inspection of Machinery Regulations² (Amendment)

I, GORDON GLEN DENTON SCHOLES, the Minister of State for Territories, hereby make the following Regulation under the Machinery Ordinance 1949.

Dated 22 July 1986.

G. SCHOLES

Minister of State for Territories

Risk of accident

Regulation 15 of the Inspection of Machinery Regulations is amended—

(a)by omitting from sub-regulation (6) all the words from and including “a male” to and including “male or female” and substituting “a person under the age of 16 years shall not, when any mill gearing is in motion by mechanical power, permit the second-mentioned person”;

(b)by omitting from sub-regulation (7) all the words from and including “a male” to and including “male or female” and substituting “a person under the age of 18 years (in this sub-regulation referred to as an ‘employee’) is employed, or a person in control of an employee, shall not permit the employee”;

(c)by omitting from sub-regulation (10) all the words from and including “a female” to and including “while she” and substituting “a person (in this sub-regulation referred to as an ‘employee’) is employed, or a person in charge of an employee, shall not permit the employee to be employed at or near the machinery, or in a room where the employee may have occasion to pass the machinery, while the employee”; and

(d)by omitting from paragraph (20) (b) “, other than a male person over the age of 18 years,” and substituting “under the age of 18 years”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 31 July 1986.

2. Regulations 1950 No. 7 as amended by 1969 No. 1; 1974 No. 23; 1975 No. 21; 1980 No. 3 as amended by 1980 No. 14; Ordinance No. 67, 1985; 1986 No. 5.