Section Sch3-17 — Health and Safety at Work Act 2015: Appointment of industry health and safety representatives

17 Appointment of industry health and safety representatives (1) This clause and clauses 18 to 23 apply only to— (a) a mining operation associated with the extraction of coal and where any person works below ground ( underground coal mining operation ): (b) mine workers who work in an underground coal mining operation: (c) any union that represents mine workers who work in an underground coal mining operation. (2) A union or group of mine workers may, in any manner determined by the union or group, appoint a person to be an industry health and safety representative. (3) The person appointed must meet the competency requirements for industry health and safety representatives prescribed in regulations made under this Act. (4) The union or group of mine workers that appoints an industry health and safety representative must meet the costs of the representative. Compare: 1992 No 96 s 19ZU