62. Exempt workers, workplaces and equipment, etc.

Terms defined in this Act

• at work

  at work

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  “at work” means —(a)in relation to an employee, all times when the employee is performing work in connection with any trade, business, profession or undertaking carried on by his or her employer, wherever that work is carried out;(b)in relation to a self-employed person, all times when the person is performing work as a self-employed person, wherever the work is carried out; and(c)in any other case, all times when the person is performing work at the direction of the other person who engaged him or her, wherever the work is carried out;

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• class or description

  class or description

  Defined · s 4

  “class or description”, in relation to workplaces, includes a group of workplaces described by reference to locality;

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• Commissioner

  Commissioner

  Defined · s 4

  “Commissioner” means the Commissioner for Workplace Safety and Health appointed under section 7;

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• machinery

  machinery

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  “machinery” includes —(a)any oil engine, gas engine, steam engine, and any other machine in which mechanical movement, either linear or 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;

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• workplace

  workplace

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  “workplace” means any premises where a person is at work or is to work, for the time being works, or customarily works, and includes a factory.(2) Subject to this section,

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