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Occupational Health and Safety (Maritime Industry) Act 1993
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#### 46 Term of office
(1) Subject to this Part, a health and safety representative for a designated work group holds office:
(a) for the period beginning on the day on which the person is selected as the representative and ending on the day on which the person stops serving on the prescribed ship or prescribed unit, as the case may be; or
(b) if agreed in consultations held under section 35 or 36 by the parties to those consultations—for a succession of such periods.
(2) The maximum period that a person can hold office as a health and safety representative for a designated work group is 2 years.
(3) A person may be re‑selected as the health and safety representative for a designated work group.