Work Health and Safety Act 2011

Each deputy health and safety representative for a work group is to be elected in the same way as a health and safety representative for the work group.

If the health and safety representative for a work group ceases to hold office or is unable (because of absence or any other reason) to exercise the powers or perform the functions of a health and safety representative under this Act—

the powers and functions may be exercised or performed by a deputy health and safety representative for the work group, and

this Act applies in relation to the deputy health and safety representative as if he or she were the health and safety representative.

Sections 64, 65, 66, 72 and 73 apply to deputy health and safety representatives in the same way as they apply to health and safety representatives.