Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

by leave—I move government amendments (1) to (5) on sheet RV162 together:

(1) Schedule 2, item 8, page 8 (line 15), at the end of the heading to subsection 47C(4), add "by any person".

(2) Schedule 2, item 8, page 9 (line 7), omit "steps", substitute "measures".

(3) Schedule 2, item 8, page 9 (after line 9), at the end of section 47C, add:

Other duties not limited or otherwise affected

(7) This section does not limit, or otherwise affect, a duty that a duty holder has under:

(a) the Work Health and Safety Act 2011; or

(b) a law of a State or Territory that deals with work health and safety.

(8) Paragraph (7)(b) does not limit the operation of section 10 or 11.

(4) Schedule 2, item 23, page 16 (after line 9), after subsection 35H(1), insert:

(1A) The application must be made within:

(a) if the compliance notice has been reconsidered under section 35G—21 days after the person was given a notice of a decision under subsection 35G(6) relating to the compliance notice; or

(b) otherwise—21 days after the day the compliance notice was given to the person.

(5) Schedule 5, page 27 (line 1) to page 29 (line 28), to be opposed.

I table a supplementary explanatory memorandum relating to the government amendments.