Western Australian Consolidated Acts

OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ACT 1984 - SECT 35B

35B .         Discrimination against safety and health representative in relation to contract for services

        (1)         In this section —

        contractor and principal have the meanings given to those terms in section 23D(1).

        (2)         Where a scheme under section 30A makes provision of the kind described in section 30B(3), a principal must not —

            (a)         terminate the engagement of a contractor; or

            (b)         subject a contractor to any other detriment,

                for the dominant or substantial reason that the contractor or a person employed by the contractor —

            (c)         is or was a safety and health representative; or

            (d)         is performing or has performed any function as a safety and health representative.

        (3)         A principal that contravenes subsection (2) commits an offence.

        [Section 35B inserted by No. 51 of 2004 s. 49.]