Mines Safety and Inspection Amendment Act 2002 (WA)

Western Australia

Mines Safety and Inspection Amendment Act

2002

Western Australia

Mines Safety and Inspection Amendment Act

2002

CONTENTS

1.	Short title	1
2.	The Act amended	2
3.	Section 4 amended	2
4.	Section 43A inserted	2

43A.	Duties and responsibilities of underground
manager or quarry manager 2

5. Section 98 amended 4

Western Australia

Mines Safety and Inspection Amendment

Act 2002

No. 16 of 2002

An Act to amend the Mines Safety and Inspection Act 1994.

[Assented to 8 July 2002]

The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:

1.             Short title

This Act may be cited as the Mines Safety and Inspection

Amendment Act 2002.

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s. 2

2.             The Act amended

The amendments in this Act are to the Mines Safety and

Inspection Act 1994*.

[* Act No. 62 of 1994.

For subsequent amendments see 2000 Index to Legislation of

Western Australia, Table 1, p. 292.]

3.             Section 4 amended

Section 4(1) is amended as follows:

(a)	in the definition of “manager”, by deleting all of the definition after “means the registered manager for the mine” and inserting a semicolon instead;
(b)	in each of the definitions of “quarry manager” and “underground manager”, by deleting “the manager who” and inserting instead —

“ the person who ”.

4.             Section 43A inserted

After section 43, the following section is inserted —

“

43A.

Duties and responsibilities of underground manager

or quarry manager

(1)

An underground manager is responsible for the

immediate direction and control, on a daily basis, of the

underground operations of the mine for which the

holder of that office is the underground manager,

subject to any instructions given to the underground

manager by the registered manager or by or on behalf

of the principal employer.

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(2)

The underground manager of a mine must, so far as is

practicable —

(a)	control and supervise, on a daily basis, the underground operations of the mine; and
(b)	ensure that every person who is appointed to perform any duty under this Act underground understands the nature and scope of that duty; and
(c)	ensure that, when underground, every person, other than the registered manager, the principal employer, or any person acting on behalf of the principal employer, performs all duties imposed on that person under this Act.

(3)

A quarry manager is responsible for the immediate

direction and control, on a daily basis, of the quarry

operations of the mine for which the holder of that

office is the quarry manager, subject to any instructions

given to the quarry manager by the registered manager

or by or on behalf of the principal employer.

(4)

The quarry manager of a mine must, so far as is

practicable —

(a)	control and supervise, on a daily basis, the quarry operations of the mine; and
(b)	ensure that every person who is appointed to perform any duty under this Act in the course of quarry operations understands the nature and scope of that duty; and

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s. 5

(c)

ensure that, when engaged in quarry operations, manager, the principal employer, or any person acting on behalf of the principal employer, performs all duties imposed on that person under this Act.

Penalty: $5 000.

”.

5.             Section 98 amended

Section 98(1)(c) is amended by deleting “or the manager of a

mine” and inserting instead —

“

of a mine or the underground manager or

quarry manager for a mine

”.