Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017

The Authority may amend a registration at any time.

If a proposed amendment corrects an obvious error in a registration, or it is of a nature that is not likely to impose any significant burden on the registration holder, the Authority—

may make the amendment; and

must then give the registration holder written notice that it has done so.

Unless subregulation (2) applies, before amending a registration, the Authority must give the registration holder written notice—

setting out the proposed amendment and the reasons for it; and

inviting the registration holder to make a submission to the Authority, within a specified period of not less than 14 days, in relation to the proposed amendment.

After the period specified in a notice under subregulation (3), the Authority must—

if the registration holder has made a submission in relation to the proposed amendment—consider that submission; and

decide to—

make the proposed amendment; or

not make any amendment; or

if the registration holder has made a submission, make a different amendment following consideration of the submission; and

within 14 days after making that decision, give the registration holder written notice that—

sets out the amendment, if any, or states that no amendment is to be made; and

sets out the Authority's reasons for making the decision; and

specifies the date (being not less than 30 days after the registration holder is given the notice) on which any amendment takes effect.

Despite subregulation (4)(c)(iii), if in the opinion of the Authority there exists an immediate or imminent risk to health or safety, the Authority may specify that an amendment is to take effect on a date that is within that 30-day period.