Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005
Investigations and special reports.
70.—(1) Without prejudice to this Chapter and subject to subsection (6), the Authority may at any time direct any of its staff or any other competent person as it considers appropriate to—
(a) investigate the causes and circumstances surrounding any accident, incident, personal injury, occurrence or situation or any other matter related to the general purposes of this Act, and
(b) make a report (in this Act referred to as a “special report”) of the investigation to the Authority.
(2) A person, who is not an inspector, carrying out an investigation under this section shall, for the purposes of the investigation, have all the powers of an inspector under this Act.
(3) In the case of a person directed to carry out an investigation and make a special report under subsection (1) (other than a member of the staff of the Authority), the Authority may pay to the person such fees and expenses as the Minister may determine with the approval of the Minister for Finance.
(4) The Authority may, to the extent that the Minister may determine, discharge the costs, other than those incurred under subsection (3), if any, incurred in the preparation of a special report.
(5) A copy of a special report made under subsection (1) shall be presented to the Minister as soon as practicable and the Authority may cause the report to be made public in such manner as it considers appropriate.
(6) The Authority in discharging its functions under subsection (1) shall not, save with the consent of the Minister given with the concurrence of any other Minister of the Government that he or she considers appropriate, investigate, examine or inquire into any of the following—
(a) an accident within the meaning of the Air Navigation (Notification and Investigation of Accidents and Incidents) Regulations 1997 (S.I. No. 205 of 1997),
(b) a rail accident, or
(c) a marine casualty (within the meaning of the Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Casualties) Act 2000).
Annotations
Modifications (not altering text):
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Functions in relation to subs. (3) transferred (29.07.2011) by Finance (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2011 (S.I. No. 418 of 2011), arts. 2, 3 and sch. 1.
2. (1) The administration and business in connection with the performance of any functions transferred by this Order are transferred to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.
(2) References to the Department of Finance contained in any Act or instrument made thereunder and relating to the administration and business transferred by paragraph (1) shall, on and after the commencement of this Order, be construed as references to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.
3. The functions conferred on the Minister for Finance by or under the provisions of —
(a) the enactments specified in Schedule 1, and
(b) the statutory instruments specified in Schedule 2,
are transferred to the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform.
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Schedule 1 Enactments
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No. 10 of 2005 |
Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 |
Sections 32, 33, 34(2), 35, 36, 38(3), 40, 45, 47, 48 and 70(3) |
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