Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) The Commission by
the name The Western Australian Industrial Commission established under the
repealed Act is hereby continued in existence subject to this Act under the
name The Western Australian Industrial Relations Commission.
(2) The Commission
shall consist of the following members —
(a) a
President;
(b) a
Chief Commissioner;
(c) a
Senior Commissioner; and
(d) such
number of other commissioners as may, from time to time, be necessary for the
purposes of this Act,
who shall be
respectively appointed to their offices by the Governor by commission in Her
Majesty’s name.
(2a) For the purposes
of section 51H of the Occupational Safety and Health Act 1984 , one
commissioner appointed under subsection (2)(d) is to be a person who, in
addition to the other attributes required for appointment, has —
(a)
knowledge of or experience in the field of occupational safety and health; and
(b)
knowledge of that Act, the Mines Safety and Inspection Act 1994 , the
Petroleum and Geothermal Energy Resources Act 1967 , the
Petroleum Pipelines Act 1969 or the
Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1982,
but the function given
by section 51H(1) of that Act to the commissioner so appointed does not
preclude that commissioner from otherwise performing the functions of a
commissioner under this Act.
(3) The order of
seniority of commissioners is —
(a)
Chief Commissioner;
(b)
Senior Commissioner;
(c)
other commissioners according to the dates of their appointments unless 2 or
more of their appointments are made on the same day in which case their order
of seniority is such as shall be assigned to them by the Governor when
appointing them.
[Section 8 amended by No. 94 of 1984
s. 8 and 66; No. 51 of 2004 s. 70(3); No. 68 of 2004
s. 87(3); No. 13 of 2005 s. 49(3); No. 35 of 2007 s.
97(3).]