10Commonwealth to act through employing authority

#### 10 Commonwealth to act through employing authority (1) For the purposes of this Act and any other law: (a) duties imposed by this Act or the regulations on the Commonwealth as an employer shall, so far as they concern those Commonwealth employees, and those Commonwealth contractors, in relation to whom a particular person or body is the employing authority, be performed by that person or body; and (b) anything done by that person or body in the capacity of an employing authority has effect as if it had been done by the Commonwealth; and (c) anything served on, or otherwise given or notified to, that person or body in the capacity of an employing authority has effect as if it had been served on, or given or notified to, the Commonwealth. (2) For the purposes of this Act and any other law, the duties imposed by this Act on the Commonwealth as an employer must, so far as they concern a workplace, or any plant, substance or thing, in relation to which one or more than one person or body is the employing authority, be performed by that person or body, or jointly by those persons or bodies, as the case requires.