Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) A person that has,
to any extent, control of —
(a) a
workplace where persons who are not employees of that person work or are
likely to be in the course of their work; or
(b) the
means of access to and egress from a workplace,
shall take such
measures as are practicable to ensure that the workplace, or the means of
access to or egress from the workplace, as the case may be, are such that
persons who are at the workplace or use the means of access to and egress from
the workplace are not exposed to hazards.
(2) Where a person
has, by virtue of a contract or lease, an obligation of any extent in relation
to the maintenance or repair of a workplace or the means of access to and
egress from the workplace, the person shall be treated for the purposes of
subsection (1) as being a person that has control of that workplace or
that means of access or egress.
(3) A reference in
this section to a person having control of any workplace or means of access to
or egress from a workplace is a reference to a person having control of that
workplace or that means of access or egress in connection with the carrying on
by that person of a trade, business or undertaking (whether for profit or
not).
[(4)-(6) deleted]
(7) This section does
not apply to a person whose duties are set out in section 20.
[Section 22 inserted by No. 30 of 1995
s. 16; amended by No. 51 of 2004 s. 23, 80 and 103.]