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MINES INSPECTION ACT 1901 - SECT 47B Inspection of serious accident or dangerous incident

This legislation has been repealed.

MINES INSPECTION ACT 1901 - SECT 47B

Inspection of serious accident or dangerous incident

47B Inspection of serious accident or dangerous incident

(1) After a serious accident or dangerous incident occurs, the general manager of the mine concerned must permit:
(a) a representative of the persons employed at the mine (who is to be one of the persons so employed), or
(b) a check inspector,
to make an inspection of the place where the accident or incident occurred as soon as the inspection can safely be made.
Maximum penalty: 10 penalty units.
(2) The inspection is to be made in company with an inspector.
(3) Before leaving the mine, the representative or check inspector is to report the result of the inspection in a book to be kept at the mine for the purpose.
(4) The inspector must make a preliminary report with respect to the serious accident or dangerous incident in writing to an officer of the Department, nominated by the Director-General for the purposes of this section, as soon as practicable after first visiting the mine at which the accident or incident occurred.
(5) The nominated officer must, if the report relates to a serious accident or dangerous incident of a kind prescribed by the rules, give the Director-General a copy of the report as soon as practicable after receiving the report.
(6) The nominated officer must, if requested to do so by the Director-General, give to the Director-General a copy of any report relating to a serious accident or dangerous incident that is not of a kind referred to in subsection (5).
(7) The Director-General may authorise an inspector other than the inspector to whom notice of the serious accident or dangerous incident was given under section 47, or a mine safety officer, to carry out the functions under this section of the inspector to whom notice was given.
(8) Nothing in subsections (4)-(7) or sections 47F-47J affects the carrying out by a representative or check inspector of his or her functions under this section.