Section 80 — Work Health and Safety Act 2011: Parties to an issue

(1) In this Division, parties, in relation to an issue, means the following: (a) the person conducting the business or undertaking or the person’s representative; (b) if the issue involves more than 1 business or undertaking, the person conducting each business or undertaking or the person’s representative; (c) if the worker or workers affected by the issue are in a work group, the health and safety representative for that work group or his or her representative; (d) if the worker or workers affected by the issue are not in a work group, the worker or workers or their representative. (2) A person conducting a business or undertaking must ensure that the person’s representative (if any) for the purposes of this Division: (a) is not a health and safety representative; and (b) has an appropriate level of seniority, and is sufficiently competent, to act as the person’s representative.