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OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY (COMMONWEALTH EMPLOYMENT) ACT 1991 No. 30, 1991 - SECT 82

82. (1) The Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with
this Act, prescribing all matters:

   (a)  required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed; or

   (b)  necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving
        effect to this Act; and, without limiting the generality of the
        foregoing, may make regulations prescribing:

   (c)  procedures for the election of persons, under section 25, as health
        and safety representatives; and

   (d)  procedures for the selection of persons, under section 34, as members
        of health and safety committees, to represent the interests of
        employees; and

   (e)  procedures to be followed at meetings of health and safety committees;
        and

   (f)  the manner in which notices are to be served under this Act or the
        regulations; and

   (g)  forms for the purposes of this Act or the regulations; and

   (h)  prescribing penalties, not exceeding $1,000, for offences against the
        regulations.

(2) Where the Governor-General is satisfied that:

   (a)  a power or function is conferred on a person under a law of the
        Commonwealth or a State or Territory; and

   (b)  this Act, or a provision of this Act, prevents the proper performance
        of that function, or the proper exercise of that power; the
        Governor-General may make regulations declaring that this Act or that
        provision does not apply to that person, or does not apply to that
        person in the circumstances specified in the regulations, and
        regulations so made have effect accordingly.

(3) Regulations made under subsection (2) cease to have effect 5 years after
the day on which the regulations come into operation unless:

   (a)  they are sooner repealed; or

   (b)  they provide that they are to cease to have effect on a day earlier
        than the first-mentioned day; but regulations that are the same in
        substance as the regulations that have ceased to have effect by virtue
        of this subsection may be made under subsection (2) at any time after
        such regulations have so ceased to have effect.
(4) In subsection (2), "this Act" includes the regulations.