OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY (COMMONWEALTH EMPLOYMENT) AMENDMENT REGULATIONS 1998 (NO. 2) 

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY (COMMONWEALTH EMPLOYMENT) AMENDMENT REGULATIONS 1998 (NO. 2) 
- TABLE OF PROVISIONS

1. 1 Name of regulations  
2. 2 Commencement  
3. 3 Amendment of Occupational Health and Safety (Commonwealth  Employment) Regulations  
SCHEDULE 1 


OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY (COMMONWEALTH EMPLOYMENT) AMENDMENT 
REGULATIONS 1998 (No. 2)
1998 No. 355
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1    Name of regulations


  These regulations are the Occupational Health and Safety 
(Commonwealth Employment) Amendment Regulations 1998 (No. 2).


OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY (COMMONWEALTH EMPLOYMENT) AMENDMENT 
REGULATIONS 1998 (No. 2)
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2    Commencement


  These regulations commence on 1 January 1999.


OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY (COMMONWEALTH EMPLOYMENT) AMENDMENT 
REGULATIONS 1998 (No. 2)
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3    Amendment of Occupational Health and Safety (Commonwealth 
Employment) Regulations


  Schedule 1 amends the Occupational Health and Safety (Commonwealth 
Employment) Regulations.


OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY (COMMONWEALTH EMPLOYMENT) AMENDMENT 
REGULATIONS 1998 (No. 2)
1998 No. 355
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Schedule 1 Amendment of Occupational Health and Safety (Commonwealth) 
Employment) Regulations
  (regulation 3)
(1) Regulation 1
  substitute
1  Name of regulations
    These regulations are the Occupational Health and Safety 
(Commonwealth Employment) Regulations 1991.
(2) Paragraph 2 (1) (b), definition of serious personal injury
  omit
  (b) for which the person is:
  insert
  (b) for which the person needs to be:
(3) Regulation 3, heading
  substitute
3  Dangerous occurrences (Act, s 5 (1))
(4) Subparagraph 3 (1) (b) (ii)
  omit
  a duration of 5
  insert
  the duration of 30
(5) Subregulation 3 (1)
  omit
  referred to in paragraph (b)
(6) Subregulation 3 (2)
  omit
(7) Subparagraph 4 (b) (i)
  omit
  Department of Primary Industries and Energy
  insert
  Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
(8) Sub-subparagraph 4 (b) (i) (B)
  omit
(9) After subparagraph 4 (b) (i)
  insert
    (ii) the Department of Industry, Science and Resources Ñ the 
Executive Director of the Australian Geological Survey Organisation;
(10) Subparagraph 4 (b) (iii)
  omit
  Department of Social Security
  insert
  Department of Family and Community Services
(11) Paragraphs 36A (a) and (b)
  omit
  5
  insert
  30
(12) Subregulation 37 (1)
  substitute
  (1) For the purposes of the Act or these regulations, a notice or 
report that is to be given to Comcare may be delivered in business 
hours to the relevant State or Territory Occupational Health and 
Safety Manager.
(13) Paragraph 37B (1) (f)
  omit
(14) Paragraph 37B (2) (a)
  omit
  paragraphs (1) (a), (b), (c), (d) and (f)
  insert
  paragraphs (1) (a), (b), (c) and (d)
(15) Paragraphs 37D (1) (a), (b) and (c)
  substitute
  (a) if an accident that causes the death of a person Ñ within 2 
hours of the employer becoming aware of the death; and
  (b) if an accident causes serious personal injury to a person Ñ 
within 24 hours of the employer becoming aware that the person has, or 
is likely to have, suffered the injury; and
  (c) if an accident causes an employee who performs work in 
connection with an undertaking conducted by his or her employer to be 
incapacitated from performing work for a prescribed period Ñ within 24 
hours of the employer becoming aware of the incapacity; and
  (d) in the case of a dangerous occurrence Ñ within 24 hours of the 
employer becoming aware of the occurrence.
(16) Paragraphs 37E (e) to (u)
  substitute
  (e) action that the employer has taken, or proposes to take, to 
prevent recurrence of an accident of the same kind.
(17) Regulation 37F
  substitute
37F  Form of reports about dangerous occurrences (Act, s 68)
    For section 68 of the Act, a report about a dangerous occurrence 
must include the information mentioned in paragraphs 37E (a), (b), 
        (c), (d) and (e), as if any reference in those paragraphs to an 
accident were a reference to a dangerous occurrence.


OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY (COMMONWEALTH EMPLOYMENT) AMENDMENT 
REGULATIONS 1998 (No. 2)
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Notes
*1* These regulations amend Statutory Rules 1991 No. 266, as amended 
by 1992 No. 244; 1993 Nos. 5 and 112; 1994 No. 22; 1998 No. 115.


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*2* Made by the Governor-General on 17 December 1998, and notified in 
the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 22 December 1998.  
Administered by the Minister for Employment, Workplace Relations and 
Small Business.