Section 251 — Work Health and Safety Act 2011: Offences and public authorities

(1) Division 4 of this Part (which deals with offences by bodies corporate) applies in relation to a public authority that is a body corporate in the same way that the Division applies in relation to any other body corporate, subject to subsection (2) of this section. (2) For the purposes of the application of Division 4 of this Part in relation to a public authority that is a body corporate: (a) each reference in that Division to an officer of a body corporate is taken to be a reference to an officer of the public authority (within the meaning of section 252); and (b) the references in paragraphs 244B(3)(a) and (b) to a corporate officer of the body corporate are taken to be references to an officer of the public authority (within the meaning of section 252).