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Work Health and Safety Amendment (Licences) Regulation 2014
 
Select Legislative Instrument No. 96, 2014
I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulation.
Dated 26 June 2014
Peter Cosgrove
Governor‑General
By His Excellency’s Command
Eric Abetz
Minister for Employment
 
  
  
Contents
1............ Name of regulation.............................................................................. 1
2............ Commencement................................................................................... 1
3............ Authority............................................................................................. 1
4............ Schedule(s)......................................................................................... 1
Schedule 1—Amendments                                                                                                2
Work Health and Safety Regulations 2011                                                            2
 
1  Name of regulation
                   This regulation is the Work Health and Safety Amendment (Licences) Regulation 2014.
2  Commencement
                   This regulation commences on 1 July 2014.
3  Authority
                   This regulation is made under the Work Health and Safety Act 2011.
4  Schedule(s)
                   Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.
Schedule 1—Amendments
  
Work Health and Safety Regulations 2011
1  Regulation 727
Repeal the regulation, substitute:
727  Licence to carry out high risk work—reach stacker
                   Before 1 January 2016, a person who carries out high risk work with a reach stacker meets the duties imposed on the person under regulation 81 if the person holds:
                     (a)  a non‑slewing mobile crane licence; or
                     (b)  a licence for high risk work with a slewing mobile crane (regardless of the crane capacity to which the licence relates); or
                     (c)  a licence granted under a corresponding WHS law that is equivalent to a licence mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b).
2  Schedule 2 (table 2.1, after item 2.1)
Insert:
 
2.1A
Regulation 87
Application for high risk work licence
$65
On application for licence

2.1B
Regulation 98
Application for replacement licence document
$30
On application for replacement document

2.1C
Regulation 101
Application for renewal of high risk work licence
$30
On application for renewal