Senate debates Bills

Work Health and Safety Bill 2011, Work Health and Safety (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Bill 2011; In Committee


Jacinta Collins

Jacinta Collins Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary for School Education and Workplace Relations

7:57 pm

The short answer, Senator Abetz, is where there is a new or significantly different duty, it is essentially agreed that that transition period will be 12 months. There is general agreement around the transition period for the regulations but each jurisdiction is, in some areas, moving on different starting points so the nature of the transitions will be different depending on the circumstances.

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