11Information booklet not required for short term engagements

11 Information booklet not required for short term engagements

(1) Section 10 does not apply if the contractor is engaged for a period of less than 30 days.

S. 11(2) substituted by No. 14/2021 s. 87(1).

(2) If a contractor is engaged by the same hirer or through the same freight broker for a total of at least 30 days in any 3 month period, the hirer or freight broker must give the contractor an information booklet that complies with section 13(1) on or before the 30th day on which the contractor is engaged during that period.

Penalty: 25 penalty units in the case of a body corporate;

5 penalty units in any other case.

S. 11(3) amended by No. 33/2019 s. 7(1).

(3) An information booklet is not required to be given more than once under subsection (2), unless the information booklet is revised.

S. 11(4) inserted by No. 33/2019 s. 7(2).

(4) This section does not apply in relation to the engagement of a tip truck driver.

Notes to s. 11 inserted by No. 14/2021 s. 87(2).

Notes

1 See section 26A for the manner of giving an information booklet to a contractor.

2 Section 60P applies to an offence against subsection (2).

3 A failure to comply with this section may also result in the Tribunal making an order under section 45 regarding payment to the contractor.

S. 11A inserted by No. 33/2019 s. 8.