Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017
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8 Independent contractors
(1) A provision of these Regulations that sets out a way that an employer complies with a duty under section 21 or 35 of the Act in relation to employees extends to the employer's duty under that section to an independent contractor engaged by the employer and any employees of the independent contractor.
(2) If a provision of these Regulations (other than subregulation (1)) provides that an employer's duty under another provision of these Regulations extends to an independent contractor—
(a) that other provision applies as if a reference to an employee were a reference to an independent contractor engaged by the employer and any employees of the independent contractor; and
(b) the duty of the employer under that other provision extends to an independent contractor engaged by the employer, and any employees of the independent contractor, in relation to matters over which the employer has control or would have control if not for any agreement purporting to limit or remove that control.