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Strong and Sustainable Resource Communities Act 2017
sec.8Offence relating to advertising or document about recruitment for large resource project
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### sec.8 Offence relating to advertising or document about recruitment for large resource project
This section applies to the owner of a large resource project that has a nearby regional community.
The owner must not—
advertise positions for workers for the project in a way that prohibits residents of the nearby regional community for the project from applying for the positions; or
otherwise state, in any way in a document, that residents of the nearby regional community for the project are not eligible to be workers for the project.
Maximum penalty—400 penalty units.
The owner is taken to contravene subsection (2) whether it is the owner, a related body corporate of the owner, or an agent of the owner or related body corporate, that does a thing mentioned in subsection (2) .
(sec.8-ssec.1) This section applies to the owner of a large resource project that has a nearby regional community.
(sec.8-ssec.2) The owner must not— advertise positions for workers for the project in a way that prohibits residents of the nearby regional community for the project from applying for the positions; or otherwise state, in any way in a document, that residents of the nearby regional community for the project are not eligible to be workers for the project. Maximum penalty—400 penalty units.
(sec.8-ssec.3) The owner is taken to contravene subsection (2) whether it is the owner, a related body corporate of the owner, or an agent of the owner or related body corporate, that does a thing mentioned in subsection (2) .
- (a) advertise positions for workers for the project in a way that prohibits residents of the nearby regional community for the project from applying for the positions; or
- (b) otherwise state, in any way in a document, that residents of the nearby regional community for the project are not eligible to be workers for the project.