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Part Part 11 - Work Health and Safety (Mines) Regulations 2022 - 2 — Exemptions | Zoe

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Work Health and Safety (Mines) Regulations 2022

Part 112 — Exemptions

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Part 11.2 — Exemptions

Division 1 — General

General power to grant exemptions 548
Matters to be considered in granting exemptions 548

Division 2 — High risk work licences

High risk work licence: exemption 549
High risk work licence: regulator to be satisfied about certain matters 549

Division 3 — Not used

Not used 550
Not used 550

Division 4 — Exemption process

Application for exemption 550
Conditions of exemption 550
Form of exemption document 551
Compliance with conditions of exemption 551
Notice of decision in relation to exemption 551
Publication of notice of exemption 552
Notice of refusal of exemption 552
Amendment or cancellation of exemption 552
Notice of amendment or cancellation 552

Part 11.2A — Competence Advisory Committees

698A. Terms used 553

Division 2 — Establishment and functions

698B. Establishment 554

698C. Functions 554

Division 3 — Membership

698D. Membership of Mining Competence Advisory Committee 554

698E. Membership of Surveyors Competence Advisory Committee 555

698F. Term of appointment 556

698G. Nominations 556

698H. Vacation of office 557

698I. Deputies 557

Division 4 — Practice and procedure

698J. Quorum 557

698K. Meetings 558

698L. Voting 558

698M. Procedures 558

Part 11.2B — Mining and Petroleum Advisory Committee

698N. Prescribed bodies (Act, Sch. 1 cl. 23) 558

698O. Functions of Mining and Petroleum Advisory Committee relating to mining industry (Act, Sch. 1 cl. 24) 559

Part 11.3 — Miscellaneous

Incident notification: prescribed serious illnesses 560
Inspectors’ identity cards 561
Entry warrant 561

Terms used 563
Applications pending determination 563
Continuation of Board of Examiners in relation to applications for certificates of competency 564
References to convictions or findings of guilt 565
Emergency plans 565
Tobacco smoke underground in underground non‑coal mines 565
Materials hoists 566
Concrete placing booms 566
Reach stackers 566
Demolition 566
Residual current devices 566
Plant registered under MSIR 567
Plant designs and items of plant not registered under MSIR 567
Continuation of exemptions from requirements to register plant 568
Safe work method statements for high risk construction work 573
Tilt up concrete and precast concrete elements 573
Additional duties of principal contractors 573
General construction induction training 573
Asbestos register 573
Undertaking asbestos removal work without licence 573
Licensed asbestos assessors 574
Information about commencing or recommencing mining operations given before commencement day 574
Information about suspending mining operations given before commencement day 574
Information about abandoning mining operations given before commencement day 575
Exploration operations 575
Continuation of approvals under MSIR 575
Establishing and implementing mine safety management system for mines 577
Contractor’s health and safety management plans 577
Principal mining hazard management plans 578
Underground ventilation control plans 578
Health management plans 578
Application of MSIR Parts 11, 12 and 14 to mines 578
Notices of high risk mining activity 579
References to GHS 582
Principal employers under MSIA taken to be mine operators 582
Site senior executives 583
Exploration managers 584
Persons appointed to positions under MSIA taken to be appointed to equivalent Schedule 26 positions 585
Statutory supervisors 587
Agreements that underground managers need not be appointed 588
Agreements that quarry managers need not be appointed 589
Written directives exempting mines from requirement to appoint ventilation officers 590
Competency certificates 591
Winding engine driver’s certificates 593
Exemptions generally 594