Work Health and Safety Amendment Act 2023 (ACT)

Work Health and Safety Amendment Act 2023

A2023-31

An Act to amend the Work Health and Safety Act 2011

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

1. Name of Act

   This Act is the Work Health and Safety Amendment Act 2023.

2. Commencement

   This Act is taken to have commenced on the day the bill for this Act was presented to the Legislative Assembly.

3. Legislation amended

   This Act amends the Work Health and Safety Act 2011.

4. New section 273A

   in division 14.1, insert

273ARelationship with Legislative Assembly

(1)To remove any doubt, work carried out by a member of the Legislative Assembly in the exercise of the member’s functions, and work carried out by other people to support the member in the exercise of the member’s functions, is work carried out in an undertaking for this Act.

(2)Nothing in this Act limits any power, privilege or immunity given under the Self‑Government Act, section 24 to—

(a)the Legislative Assembly; or

(b)a committee of the Legislative Assembly; or

(c)a member of the Legislative Assembly.

(3)Without limiting subsection (2), nothing in this Act gives the regulator or anyone else exercising a function under this Act the power to improperly prohibit a proceeding of the Legislative Assembly or any of its committees.

Endnotes

1. Presentation speech

   Presentation speech made in the Legislative Assembly on 20 October 2022.

2. Notification

   Notified under the Legislation Act on 7 July 2023.

3. Republications of amended laws

   For the latest republication of amended laws, see certify that the above is a true copy of the Work Health and Safety Amendment Bill 2023, which originated in the Legislative Assembly as the Work Health and Safety Amendment Bill 2022 and was passed by the Assembly on 29 June 2023.

   Acting Clerk of the Legislative Assembly

   © Australian Capital Territory 2023