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Enacting Formula

Part I PRELIMINARY

Part II GENERAL PROVISIONS

Part III METAL SCAFFOLDS

Part IV TIMBER SCAFFOLDs

Part V SUSPENDED SCAFFOLDs

Part VI OTHER SCAFFOLDS

Part VII APPROVED SCAFFOLD CONTRACTORs

Part VIII MISCELLANEOUS

 
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On 22/05/2013, you requested for the version in force on 22/05/2013 incorporating all amendments published on or before 22/05/2013. The closest version currently available is that of 10/09/2011.
Inspection of scaffolds
26.
—(1)  Subject to paragraph (4), it shall be the duty of the occupier of a workplace in which a scaffold is constructed, erected or installed to ensure that no scaffold is used unless it has been inspected by a scaffold supervisor —
(a)
upon completion of its construction, erection or installation, as the case may be;
(b)
thereafter, at intervals of not more than 7 days immediately following the date of the last inspection by the scaffold supervisor; and
(c)
after exposure to weather conditions likely to have affected its strength or stability or to have displaced any part.
(2)  It shall be the duty of the scaffold supervisor to —
(a)
enter the results of every inspection referred to in paragraph (1) into a register containing such details as may be required by the Commissioner; and
(b)
provide the register to the occupier of the workplace.
(3)  Subject to paragraph (4), it shall be the duty of the occupier of the workplace in which a scaffold is constructed, erected or installed to —
(a)
keep the register referred to in paragraph (2) at the workplace; and
(b)
produce the register for inspection upon request by an inspector.
(4)  This regulation shall not apply to —
(a)
a trestle scaffold; or
(b)
a scaffold, from no part of which a person is liable to fall more than 2 metres.
(5)  Any person who contravenes paragraph (3) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $2,000.