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Queensland Building and Construction Commission Act 1991
sec.106RPower to take remedial action
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### sec.106R Power to take remedial action
This section applies in relation to a risk of death or a serious injury or illness if—
a person to whom a direction is given under section 106P or 106Q in relation to the risk fails to comply with the direction; or
an investigator can not give a direction under section 106P or 106Q in relation to the risk because, after taking reasonable steps, a person to whom the direction can be given can not be found.
An investigator may take any remedial action the investigator believes reasonable to remove or minimise the risk.
The commission may recover, as a debt, the reasonable costs of any remedial action taken under this section from—
if subsection (1) (a) applies—the person to whom the direction was given; or
if subsection (1) (b) applies—any person to whom the direction could have been given.
s 106R ins 2017 No. 29 s 22
amd 2017 No. 43 s 294 (1)
(sec.106R-ssec.1) This section applies in relation to a risk of death or a serious injury or illness if— a person to whom a direction is given under section 106P or 106Q in relation to the risk fails to comply with the direction; or an investigator can not give a direction under section 106P or 106Q in relation to the risk because, after taking reasonable steps, a person to whom the direction can be given can not be found.
(sec.106R-ssec.2) An investigator may take any remedial action the investigator believes reasonable to remove or minimise the risk.
(sec.106R-ssec.3) The commission may recover, as a debt, the reasonable costs of any remedial action taken under this section from— if subsection (1) (a) applies—the person to whom the direction was given; or if subsection (1) (b) applies—any person to whom the direction could have been given.
- (a) a person to whom a direction is given under section 106P or 106Q in relation to the risk fails to comply with the direction; or
- (b) an investigator can not give a direction under section 106P or 106Q in relation to the risk because, after taking reasonable steps, a person to whom the direction can be given can not be found.
- (a) if subsection (1) (a) applies—the person to whom the direction was given; or
- (b) if subsection (1) (b) applies—any person to whom the direction could have been given.