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WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT 2011 - SECT 272A

No insurance or other indemnity against penalties

  (1)   A person must not, without reasonable excuse:

  (a)   enter into a contract of insurance or other arrangement under which the person, or another person, is purportedly covered for all or part of a liability for a monetary penalty under this Act; or

  (b)   provide insurance or a grant of indemnity for all or part of a liability for a monetary penalty under this Act; or

  (c)   take the benefit of a contract of insurance, arrangement or grant of indemnity mentioned in paragraph   (a) or (b).

Penalty:   The tier B monetary penalty.

  (2)   Subsection   (1) places an evidential burden on the accused to show a reasonable excuse.

  (3)   A term of a contract of insurance or other arrangement is void to the extent it purports to cover a person for all or part of a liability for a monetary penalty under this Act.



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