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Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Miscellaneous provisions - Authorisations

204: Requirements for authorisation of workplaces

You could also call this:

“Rules for getting workplaces approved when needed”

You can’t run a business or have workers do their jobs at a workplace if the rules say that workplace needs to be approved, but it isn’t. This applies to specific workplaces or types of workplaces that need approval according to the rules.

If you break this rule, you’re doing something against the law. If you’re caught and found guilty, you’ll have to pay a fine. If you’re just one person, you might have to pay up to $50,000. If you’re a company or organisation, you might have to pay up to $250,000.

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Work and jobs > Worker rights
Work and jobs > Workplace safety
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Part 5 Miscellaneous provisions
Authorisations

204Requirements for authorisation of workplaces

  1. A person must not conduct a business or undertaking at a workplace or direct or allow a worker to carry out work at a workplace if—

  2. regulations require the workplace, or class of workplaces, to be authorised; and
    1. the workplace is not authorised in accordance with regulations.

      1. A person who contravenes subsection (1) commits an offence and is liable on conviction,—

      2. for an individual, to a fine not exceeding $50,000:
        1. for any other person, to a fine not exceeding $250,000.

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