WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT 2011 - SECT 131 Application for WHS entry permit

WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT 2011 - SECT 131

    (1)     A union may apply to the regulator for the issue of a WHS entry permit to a person who is an official of the union.

    (2)     The application must specify the person who is to hold the WHS entry permit and include a statement by that person declaring that he or she—

        (a)     is an official of the union; and

        (b)     has satisfactorily completed the prescribed training; and

        (c)     holds, or will hold, an entry permit under the Fair Work Act

.

Note     It is an offence to make a false or misleading statement, give false or misleading information or produce a false or misleading document (see Criminal Code

, pt 3.4).