Western Australian Current Regulations

WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY (MINES) REGULATIONS 2022 - REG 234

234 .         Duty of persons conducting businesses or undertakings that commission plant

        (1)         This regulation applies to a person who conducts a business or undertaking that commissions plant.

        (2)         The person must not commission an item of plant that is specified in Schedule 5 Division 2 for use in a workplace unless that item of plant is registered under the Work Health and Safety (General) Regulations 2022 Part 5.3.

        Penalty for this subregulation:

            (a)         for an individual, a fine of $7 000;

            (b)         for a body corporate, a fine of $35 000.

        (3)         Nothing in subregulation (2) prevents a person from performing any necessary adjustments, tests or inspections as part of the commissioning process before the plant is commissioned at a workplace.