Occupational Health and Safety Amendment Act 1997 Proclamation re commencement (1997-545) [GG No 112 of 17.10.1997, p 8562] (NSW)

1997 No 545

New South Wales

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY AMENDMENT ACT

1997 NO 51—PROCLAMATION

(L.S.) GORDON SAMUELS, Governor.

I, the Honourable Gordon Samuels, Governor of the State of New South Wales, with the advice of the Executive Council, and in pursuance of section 2 of the Occupational Health and Safety Amendment Act 1997, do, by this my Proclamation, appoint 1 November 1997 as the day on which sections 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, and Schedule 1 [3], 1 [8], 1 [9], 1 [l l], 1 [15] and Schedule 3.1 [2] and 3.4 commence.

Signed and sealed at Sydney, this 15th day of October 1997.

By His Excellency’s Command,

JEFFREY SHAW, Q.C., M.L.C.,

Minister for Industrial Relations

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The object of this Proclamation is to commence certain provisions of the Occupational

Health and Safety Amendment Act 1997 that deal with the following:

(a)	obligations imposed on the designers, manufacturers and suppliers of any plant or substance for use at work,
(b)	power to make regulations under the principal Act regarding identification of hazards arising from work and assessment of risks to health and safety associated with such hazards,
(c)	the description of occupational health and safety qualifications required by the regulations.
(d)	the ability to charge, as a single offence, more than one contravention of the principal duties of employers and others under Part 3 of the principal Act if the contraventions arose out of the same factual circumstances,
(e)	miscellaneous savings and transitional provisions,
(f)	consequential amendments to various Acts.

Published in Gazette No 112 of 17 October 1997, page 8562