Bill
Work Health and Safety Amendment (Norfolk Island) Bill 2021
passed, as at 2021-09-10. Industrial Relations portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Industrial Relations
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2021-02-24
- second reading — 2021-02-24
- second reading — 2021-03-18
- third reading — 2021-03-18
- introduced — 2021-03-22
- second reading — 2021-08-30
- second reading — 2021-08-30
- second reading — 2021-08-30
- third reading — 2021-08-30
- passed — 2021-08-30
- royal assent — 2021-09-10
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2021-02-24.
This bill would make the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 cover activities carried out by the federal government on Norfolk Island.
It would remove Norfolk Island from a section of the Act that currently excludes the island's administration from being treated as a government business.
The change comes after the island lost its self-governing status in 2015, when the Commonwealth took over funding and services there.
- Norfolk Island is no longer listed as a self-governing territory in the Act's definitions.
- The Act's application to Commonwealth work on the island is clarified.
- References to Norfolk Island in sections 4, 7, and 12(2) of the Act are removed.
The federal government, which runs activities on Norfolk Island, and people doing work there.
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