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698AParticular work involving engineered stone—exception if carried out under pre‑2024 contract
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698A Particular work involving engineered stone—exception if carried out under pre‑2024 contract
(1) Regulation 529D, as inserted by the Work Health and Safety Amendment (Penalties and Engineered Stone and Crystalline Silica Substances) Regulations 2024, does not apply to work that involves installing engineered stone benchtops, panels or slabs if:
(a) the work is carried out:
(i) under a contract originally entered into on or before 31 December 2023; and
(ii) on or before 31 December 2024 in a place to which a corresponding WHS law applies; and
(b) if the corresponding WHS law applied to the work, regulation 529D of the corresponding WHS law would not apply to the work under that law because the work was carried out on or before 31 December 2024.
(2) Regulation 529D, as inserted by the Work Health and Safety Amendment (Penalties and Engineered Stone and Crystalline Silica Substances) Regulations 2024, does not apply to work if:
(a) the work involves supplying or processing engineered stone benchtops, panels or slabs to be installed under a contract referred to in subparagraph (1)(a)(i); and
(b) the work occurs on or before 31 December 2024 in a place to which a corresponding WHS law applies; and
(c) if the corresponding WHS law applied to the work, regulation 529D of the corresponding WHS law would not apply to the work under that law because the work occurred on or before 31 December 2024; and
(d) for work that involves processing the engineered stone—the processing is controlled.