Occupational Health and Safety Amendment Act 2000 (No 2) (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Occupational Health and Safety Amendment Act 2000 (No 2)

No 62 of 2000

An Act to amend the Occupational Health and Safety Act 1989

[Notified in ACT Gazette No. 44: 2 November 2000]

The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory enacts as follows:

1. Name of Act

   This Act is the Occupational Health and Safety Amendment Act 2000 (No 2).

2. Commencement

   This Act commences on the day it is notified in the Gazette.

3. Act amended

   This Act amends the Occupational Health and Safety Act 1989.

4. Substitution

   Section 35A is repealed and the following section substituted:

“35A  Commencement of prosecution in Magistrates Court

“(1)    If a coroner’s inquest or inquiry is held and it appears from the coroner’s report or from proceedings at the inquest or inquiry that an offence has been committed against this Part, a prosecution for the offence may be begun in the Magistrates Court at any time before the third anniversary of the day the findings were recorded, or the report was made, whichever occurs later.

“(2)    Subsection (1) applies to an offence against this Part whether it was committed before or after the commencement of this section.”.

Endnote

Act amended

1. Republished as in force on 1 August 2000.  (Republication No 8).

[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 6 September 2000]

© Australian Capital Territory 2000