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222: Approval of codes of practice
or “How the Minister approves, changes, or cancels workplace safety guidelines”
You could also call this:

“How approved codes of practice are announced and when they start”

When a code of practice is approved, changed, or cancelled, the regulator needs to let people know about it in a special newspaper called the Gazette. This needs to happen as soon as they can do it.

After the notice is put in the Gazette, you usually have to wait at least 28 days before the new code, changes, or cancellation can start working.

Sometimes, there might be small or technical changes to a code. The Minister can approve these. When this happens, the changes can start working on the day that’s written in the Gazette notice. You don’t have to wait 28 days for these small changes.

If you want to know more about how the Minister approves small changes, you can look at section 222(5).

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Part 5 Miscellaneous provisions
Regulations, exemptions, approved codes of practice, and safe work instruments: Codes of practice

223Publication and commencement of approved code of practice

  1. As soon as practicable after an approved code of practice has been approved, amended, or revoked, the regulator must ensure that notice of the approval, amendment, or revocation is published in the Gazette.

  2. Subject to subsection (3), an approved code of practice, an amendment, or a revocation may not come into force until at least 28 days after it has been notified in the Gazette.

  3. A minor or technical amendment approved by the Minister under section 222(5) comes into force on the date specified by notice in the Gazette.

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