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188: Offence to impersonate health and safety medical practitioner
or “It's illegal to pretend you're a health and safety medical practitioner”
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“WorkSafe oversees compliance with the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015”

WorkSafe is in charge of making sure the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 is followed. This means WorkSafe is the regulator for this Act. However, sometimes other people or groups might be put in charge instead of WorkSafe. If this happens, it’s explained in section 191 of the Act. When someone else is put in charge, WorkSafe isn’t the regulator for that specific part.

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Next up: 190: Functions and powers of regulator other than WorkSafe

or “Duties and responsibilities of non-WorkSafe health and safety regulators”
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Part 5 Miscellaneous provisions
Administration

189Role of WorkSafe

  1. Except to the extent that a designation under section 191 is in force, WorkSafe is the regulator for the purposes of this Act.