Application of funds
13 Application of funds
Money available to the Committee from the Mining and Quarrying Industries
Fund under Schedule 9 of the Return to Work Act 2014 may be used for any of the following purposes:
to promote and support practices, procedures and arrangements designed to protect workers from silicosis;
to support education in the field of occupational health or safety in the mining and quarrying industries;
to initiate or support research and studies into occupational health or safety that could benefit workers in the mining and quarrying industries;
to promote and support persons or organisations working to prevent, alleviate or treat the kinds of disabilities suffered by workers in the mining and quarrying industries;
to support any other kind of activity that could directly or indirectly improve occupational health or safety in the mining and quarrying industries or assist in the rehabilitation of disabled workers in those industries.
The
Committee has all such powers as are reasonably necessary for the effective performance of its functions (including the power to establish subcommittees and to engage, as may be appropriate, experts or consultants to assist the Committee in the performance of its functions).
The
Committee must, in making grants of money under this Schedule, give preference to supporting projects directed at improving occupational health or safety in those industries that involve exposure to silica dust and in particular to supporting specialised research and training projects directed at that purpose in South Australia.
The
Committee must not spend any part of the principal standing to the credit of Part B of the Mining and Quarrying Industries Fund without the specific approval of the Minister and in any case the
Committee is not to spend in any financial year more than 20% of the principal that, at the commencement of that financial year, is standing to the credit of that part of the fund.
The
Committee must after the end of each financial year prepare a report on its operations during that financial year.
The report must be submitted to the Minister and laid before both Houses of Parliament by the Minister.
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