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Environmental Protection Act 1994
sec.320BDuty of particular employees to notify employer
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### sec.320B Duty of particular employees to notify employer
This section applies if the person is carrying out the primary activity during the person’s employment or engagement by, or as the agent of, someone else (the employer ).
However, this section does not apply if the person is carrying out the primary activity as a rehabilitation auditor performing functions for an audit of a PRCP schedule or an auditor performing auditor’s functions mentioned in section 568 .
The person must, no later than 24 hours after becoming aware of the event, or the time when the person ought reasonably to have become aware of the event, and unless the person has a reasonable excuse—
notify the employer of the event, its nature and the circumstances in which it happened; or
if the employer can not be contacted—give the administering authority written notice of the event, its nature and the circumstances in which it happened.
Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.
s 320B ins 2010 No. 52 s 18
amd 2014 No. 59 s 124 ; 2018 No. 30 s 182 ; 2024 No. 30 s 18
(sec.320B-ssec.1) This section applies if the person is carrying out the primary activity during the person’s employment or engagement by, or as the agent of, someone else (the employer ).
(sec.320B-ssec.2) However, this section does not apply if the person is carrying out the primary activity as a rehabilitation auditor performing functions for an audit of a PRCP schedule or an auditor performing auditor’s functions mentioned in section 568 .
(sec.320B-ssec.3) The person must, no later than 24 hours after becoming aware of the event, or the time when the person ought reasonably to have become aware of the event, and unless the person has a reasonable excuse— notify the employer of the event, its nature and the circumstances in which it happened; or if the employer can not be contacted—give the administering authority written notice of the event, its nature and the circumstances in which it happened. Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.
- (a) notify the employer of the event, its nature and the circumstances in which it happened; or
- (b) if the employer can not be contacted—give the administering authority written notice of the event, its nature and the circumstances in which it happened.