Australian Capital Territory Numbered Regulations

WORK SAFETY REGULATION 2009 (NO 45 OF 2009) - REG 28

    (1)     This section applies if a work safety representative is elected for a worker consultation unit.

    (2)     The person who conducted the election must give notice of the result of the election to—

        (a)     each represented worker's employer; and

        (b)     if the worker consultation unit had a work safety representative before the election (a previous work safety representative ) who is replaced by the elected work safety representative—the previous work safety representative.

    (3)     The notice must include the work safety representative's name.

    (4)     An employer must, if given notice of the election of a work safety representative for a worker consultation unit, tell workers in the unit the employer engages to carry out work that the person elected is a work safety representative.

Examples—how to tell workers who elected work safety representative is

1     email

2     notice posted

3     staff handbook

Note 1     The Act, pt 6 (Compliance measures) imposes requirements on people who are required to do something under a provision of this regulation.

Note 2     An example is part of the regulation, is not exhaustive and may extend, but does not limit, the meaning of the provision in which it appears (see Legislation Act, s 126 and s 132).