Workplace Safety and Health Act · 2024 Revised Edition · Part · General
60. Limitation of liability
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
No action, suit or other legal proceeding shall be brought against —
the Authority;
(Deleted by S 56/2018);
an inspector;
an authorised officer; or
an authorised examiner,
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for any damage done to any item specified in subsection (2) in the course of carrying out in good faith any prescribed examination or test of that item.
Subsection (1) applies to the following items —
a hoist or lift;
a lifting gear;
a lifting appliance or lifting machine;
a steam boiler;
a steam receiver;
an air receiver;
a refrigerating plant pressure receiver;
a pressure vessel; or
any other machinery required by this Act to be examined or tested by an authorised examiner.
No action, suit or other legal proceedings shall be brought against the Authority in respect of any act or thing done or omitted to be done by any of them in good faith in the exercise, performance or purported exercise or performance of any duty or function under section 21.
Terms defined in s 4
air receiver
Defined · s 4“air receiver” means — (a) any vessel (other than a pipe or coil or an accessory, a fitting or part of a compressor) for containing compressed air and connected with an air compressing plant; (b) any fixed vessel for containing compressed air and used for the purpose of starting an internal combustion engine; (c) any blast air bottle; or (d) any vessel in which any substance in the form of solid or liquid is stored and from which it is forced by compressed air;
authorised examiner
Defined · s 4“authorised examiner” means any person approved by the Authority under section 33 for the purpose of carrying out any prescribed examination or test of any — (a) hoist and lift; (b) lifting gear; (c) lifting appliance or lifting machine; (d) steam boiler; (e) steam receiver; (f) air receiver; (g) refrigerating plant pressure receiver; (h) pressure vessel; or (i) any other machinery required by this Act to be examined or tested by an authorised examiner;
authorised officer
Defined · s 4“authorised officer” means an authorised officer appointed under section 7(2);
lift
Defined · s 4“lift” includes any lifting appliance or lifting machine used for carrying persons, whether together with goods or otherwise;
lifting appliance
Defined · s 4“lifting appliance” includes a pulley block, gin wheel and chain block or set of chain blocks;
lifting gear
Defined · s 4“lifting gear” includes — (a) any chain, rope, chain sling, webbing sling, rope sling, ring, hook, shackle, swivel or eyebolt; and (b) any cage or work platform used for carrying persons while it is suspended from the load line of a crane;
lifting machine
Defined · s 4“lifting machine” includes — (a) any crane, crab, winch, teagle, runway, transporter, piling frame or piling machine; and (b) any work platform or suspended scaffold capable of being raised or lowered by climbers, winches or other powered device;
machinery
Defined · s 4“machinery” includes — (a) any oil engine, gas engine, steam engine and any other machine in which mechanical movement, either linear, rotated or both, takes place; (b) any steam boiler, gas cylinder, air receiver, steam receiver, steam container or refrigerating plant pressure receiver; (c) any appliance for transmission of power by ropes, belts, chains, driving straps or bands or gearing; and (d) any electrical generator or electrical motor, but does not include any machinery used solely for the propulsion of vehicles;
refrigerating plant pressure receiver
Defined · s 4“refrigerating plant pressure receiver” means any vessel which contains refrigerant under pressure;
steam receiver
Defined · s 4“steam receiver” means any vessel or apparatus, other than a steam boiler, steam container, steam pipe or coil or a part of a prime mover, used for containing steam under pressure greater than atmospheric pressure;