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90 Provisional improvement notices
(1) This section applies if a health and safety representative reasonably
believes that a person—
(a) is contravening a provision of this Act; or
(b) has contravened a provision of this Act in circumstances that
make it likely that the contravention will continue or be
repeated.
(2) The health and safety representative may issue a provisional
improvement notice requiring the person to—
(a) remedy the contravention; or
(b) prevent a likely contravention from occurring; or
(c) remedy the things or operations causing the contravention or
likely contravention.
(3) However, the health and safety representative must not issue a
provisional improvement notice to a person unless he or she has first
consulted the person.
(4) A health and safety representative cannot issue a provisional
improvement notice unless the representative has—
(a) completed initial training prescribed by regulation referred to in
section 72 (1) (b) (Obligation to train health and safety
representatives) or section 72A (2) (b) (Obligation to train health
and safety representatives—major construction project); or
(b) previously completed that training when acting as a health and
safety representative for another work group; or
(c) completed training equivalent to that training under a
(5) A health and safety representative cannot issue a provisional
improvement notice in relation to a matter if an inspector has already
issued (or decided not to issue) an improvement notice or prohibition
notice in relation to the same matter.