Commonwealth legislation

Occupational Health and Safety (Commonwealth Employees) Act 1991 - Notice of Approval - Notice No. 3 of 1999

RepealedCTH

This Act has been repealed and is no longer in force. It is retained for historical reference.

Jurisdiction

Commonwealth

Collection

legislative instrument

Plain English Summary

1/10 complexity

This is a short ministerial approval notice that gives legal weight to a workplace safety guide.

What it does: The Minister has officially approved the Code of Practice for First Aid in Commonwealth Workplaces under the OHS (Commonwealth Employment) Act 1991. This code sets the standard for first aid requirements in federal government workplaces—covering everything from first aid kits to trained first aiders.

Who it affects: Commonwealth employees and employers—essentially anyone working for the federal government or its agencies.

Why it matters: Approved codes of practice become the legal benchmark for safety. While breaching a code itself isn't a crime, ignoring it can be used as evidence that an employer failed to meet their duty of care if someone is injured at work.

JSON API

Deep dive

Want the full deep dive?

Zoe can write the in-depth analysis on top of the summary above: how it works, who it affects and what each part actually does.

Current sections

Direct links to the current provisions in Occupational Health and Safety (Commonwealth Employees) Act 1991 - Notice of Approval - Notice No. 3 of 1999.

Occupational Health and Safety (Commonwealth Employees) Act 1991 - Notice of Approval - Notice No. 3 of 1999

meta-content-style-type: text/css meta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8 meta-generator: Aspose.Words for .NET 20.2 title: COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?>

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY (COMMONWEALTH EMPLOYMENT) ACT 1991

NOTICE OF APPROVAL

Notice No. 3 of 1999

I, Peter Keaston Reith, Minister for Employment, Workplace Relations and Small Business, under subsection 70 of the Occupational Health and Safety (Commonwealth Employment) Act 1991 (in this notice referred to as “the Act”):

i) approve the Code of Practice for First Aid in Commonwealth Workplaces, as a code of practice which is to apply generally for the purposes of the Act

on and from the date of publication of this Notice in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette.

16th day of October 1999

Peter Reith

Minister for Employment, Workplace Relations and Small Business

Source text

Sourced from the Federal Register of Legislation (legislation.gov.au), CC BY 4.0.