Mine and Petroleum Site Safety (Cost Recovery) Act 2005
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13 Requirement to provide information
13 Requirement to provide information
(1) An authorised officer may, by notice in writing, require a specialised mining and petroleum industry insurer or mining and petroleum industry self-insurer to provide the authorised officer with such documents and information, and within such time, as may be specified in the notice for the purposes of enabling the Secretary to make a determination under section 10.
(2) The regulations may make provision for or with respect to—
(a) the provision by specialised mining and petroleum industry insurers and mining and petroleum industry self-insurers of documents and information of the kind referred to in subsection (1), and
(b) the keeping of records by specialised mining and petroleum industry insurers and mining and petroleum industry self-insurers for the purposes of this Act.
(3) An authorised officer may—
(a) carry out an audit or inspection of the documents and records required to be provided or kept by or under this section, and
(b) make copies of any such documents or records.
(4) An authorised officer has, for the purposes of exercising any function under subsection (3), the same functions as an inspector (within the meaning of section 238 of the Workplace Injury Management and Workers Compensation Act 1998) has under that section.
(5) A reference in subsection (1) or (2) to a specialised mining and petroleum industry insurer or mining and petroleum industry self-insurer includes a reference to any person who, in the opinion of the Secretary, is or may be such an insurer.
(6) A person who contravenes any requirement imposed on the person under this section or under the regulations referred to in this section is guilty of an offence.
Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.
(7) In this section—
authorised officer means any person appointed by the Secretary as an authorised officer for the purposes of this section, and includes the Secretary.
s 13: Am 2015 No 19, Sch 15.9 [7]; 2015 No 43, Sch 3 [3].