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Occupational Health and Safety Act 1991
20Duties of person erecting or installing plant in a workplace
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#### 20 Duties of person erecting or installing plant in a workplace
(1) A person who erects or installs any plant in a workplace for the use of employees at work must take all reasonably practicable steps to ensure that the plant is not erected or installed in such a manner that:
(a) the plant is unsafe for, or constitutes a risk to the health of, employees at the workplace where the plant is erected or installed; or
(b) the process of erection or installation is unsafe for, or constitutes a risk to the health of, employees at the workplace where the plant is erected or installed.
> Note: A person who breaches subsection (1) may be subject to civil action or a criminal prosecution (see Schedule 2).
(2) Nothing in this section affects the operation of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010, or of any other law of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory that imposes an obligation in respect of the erection or installation of goods or the supply of services.