MINES INSPECTION ACT 1901 - SECT 47K Special reports
This legislation has been repealed.
MINES INSPECTION ACT 1901 - SECT 47K
Special reports47K Special reports
(1) The Minister may direct an inspector, investigator or mine safety officer, or request any other person, to make a special report with respect to any serious accident or dangerous incident at a mine.
(2) The Minister may at any time direct an inspector, investigator or mine safety officer, or request any other person, to make a special report as to matters relating to the safety, health, conduct or discipline of persons in mines, or any occurrence or practice at a mine, if the Minister thinks it appropriate that a special report should be made.
(3) The Minister, if the Minister thinks fit, may publish a special report at the time and in the manner determined by the Minister.
(4) A person requested to make a special report under this section has, for the purpose of exercising his or her functions under this section, the functions of an inspector under sections 36, 36A and 36B and section 36C applies in respect of the person in the same way that it applies in respect of an inspector and anything done by an inspector under Division 1 of Part 4.