172Competence of worker—incidental diving work

172 Competence of worker—incidental diving work

172 Competence of worker—incidental diving work

(1) A person must not carry out incidental diving work unless the person—

(a) has the knowledge and skill referred to in section 171A, and

(b) has relevant diving experience, and

(c) is accompanied and supervised in the water by a person who has the competencies referred to in section 171.

Note—

See the Act, section 44.

(2) In this section, a person has relevant diving experience if the person has logged at least 15 hours of diving, of which at least 8 hours and 20 minutes were spent diving between 10 metres above and a depth below the maximum depth at which the diving work is to be carried out.