Commonwealth Numbered Acts

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY (COMMONWEALTH EMPLOYMENT) ACT 1991 No. 30, 1991 - SECT 31

31. (1) A person must cease to be the health and safety representative for the
designated work group if:

   (a)  the person resigns as the health and safety representative; or

   (b)  the person ceases to be an employee included in the designated work
        group; or

   (c)  the person's term of office expires without the person having been
        selected, under section 25, to be the health and safety representative
        for the designated work group for a further term; or

   (d)  the person is disqualified under section 32.

(2) A person may resign as the health and safety representative for a
designated work group:

   (a)  if the person was last selected as the health and safety
        representative in an election conducted by an involved union in
        relation to the group - by notice in writing delivered to the
        involved union that nominated the person as a candidate in the
        election; or

   (b)  in any other case - by notice in writing delivered to the employer of
        all the employees included in the group.

(3) Where a person has resigned as the health and safety representative for a
designated work group:

   (a)  if paragraph (2) (a) applies - the involved union to which the notice
        of resignation was delivered; or

   (b)  in any other case - the person; must notify the employees included in
        the group, and, in a case to which paragraph (2) (a) applies, the
        employer of all those employees, of the resignation.

(4) Where a person has ceased to be the health and safety representative for a
designated work group because of paragraph (1) (b), the person must notify in
writing:

   (a)  the employees included in the group; and

   (b)  the employer of all those employees; and

   (c)  where the person was last selected as the health and safety
        representative in an election conducted by an involved union in
        relation to the group - the involved union, in relation to the group,
        that nominated the person as a candidate in the election; that the
        person has ceased to be the health and safety representative for that
        designated work group.