New South Wales Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

MINES INSPECTION ACT 1901 - SECT 7

7 Grant of certificates of competency

(1) The Minister shall grant a certificate of competency as production manager to every applicant who is duly reported by the board of examiners to have passed the examination satisfactorily, and to have given satisfactory evidence of the applicant’s sobriety, qualifications, experience, ability, and general good conduct, and that the applicant has had practical experience in a mine for at least three years.

(1A) If the applicant is a person with a disability (within the meaning of the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 of the Commonwealth), the Minister must not refuse to grant a certificate of competency as production manager to the applicant on the ground of the applicant’s disability unless the applicant, because of that disability, would be unable to carry out the inherent requirements of the occupation of production manager.

(1B) The following are to be taken into account in determining whether an applicant would be unable to carry out the inherent requirements of the occupation of production manager:

(a) the applicant’s past training, qualifications and experience relevant to that occupation,

(b) if the applicant is already acting as a production manager, the applicant’s performance in that occupation,

(c) all other relevant factors that it is reasonable to take into account.

(2) The Minister shall specify in a certificate granted under subsection (1) the class of mine to which it relates.

(3) A certificate that was granted under subsection (1) before the commencement of Schedule 2 to the Mines Inspection (Amendment) Act 1978 and that had not been cancelled before that commencement shall, on and from that commencement, be deemed to relate to a below ground mine.