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Work Health and Safety (National Uniform Legislation) Act 2011
5Meaning of person conducting a business or undertaking
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5 Meaning of person conducting a business or undertaking
(1) For the purposes of this Act, a person conducts a business or
undertaking:
(a) whether the person conducts the business or undertaking
alone or with others; and
(b) whether or not the business or undertaking is conducted for
profit or gain.
(2) A business or undertaking conducted by a person includes a
business or undertaking conducted by a partnership or an
unincorporated association.
(3) If a business or undertaking is conducted by a partnership (other
than an incorporated partnership), a reference in this Act to a
person conducting the business or undertaking is to be read as a
reference to each partner in the partnership.
(4) A person does not conduct a business or undertaking to the extent
that the person is engaged solely as a worker in, or as an officer of,
that business or undertaking.
(5) An elected member of a local government council does not in that
capacity conduct a business or undertaking.
(6) The Regulations may specify the circumstances in which a person
may be taken not to be a person who conducts a business or
undertaking for the purposes of this Act or any provision of this Act.
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(7) A volunteer association does not conduct a business or undertaking
for the purposes of this Act.
(8) In this section:
volunteer association means a group of volunteers working
together for one or more community purposes where none of the
volunteers, whether alone or jointly with any other volunteers,
employs any person to carry out work for the volunteer association.