New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MINE HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT 2004 - SECT 11

11 Act does not apply to civil engineering works

(1) Subject to the regulations and any notice given by the Minister under section 7 (1) (b), this Act does not apply to:

(a) any place where the extraction or treatment of quarry product is carried out, where those activities are an integral part of any civil engineering work, or

(b) any place where underground work involving the extraction or treatment of quarry product is carried out, where that work is an integral part of any civil engineering work.

(2) In this section, "civil engineering work" means the construction, structural alteration, repair, maintenance and demolition of, for example, airports, docks, harbours, inland waterways, dams, river and avalanche and sea defence works, roads and highways, railways, bridges and tunnels, viaducts and works related to the provision of services such as communications, drainage, sewerage, water and energy supplies.