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Agency:
Workplace Standards Authority
Agency Number:
Start Date:
27 Mar 1996
End Date:
05 Apr 2006
Description:
The Authority was established to concentrate the regulation and supervision of working conditions in one agency. It was formed by amalgamating the Industry Safety and Mines Division (excluding Mineral Resources Tasmania) of Tasmania Development and Resources with those parts of the Department of Industrial Relations, Vocational Education and Training that dealt with Long Service Leave and inspections under the Industrial Relations Act 1984. The Authority was under direct ministerial control until 18 September 1998 when it was placed under the administrative control of the newly created Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources. On that date the Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation Tribunal was transferred to the Department of Justice and Industrial Relations. Agency underwent a name change on 21 March 2000 to Workplace Standards Tasmania.;;Workplace Standards Tasmania was amalgamated with the Department of Justice on 5 April 2006
Information Sources:
State Service (Restructuring) Order 2006 (SR 2006 No 21)
Legislation Administered:
Statutory Rules 1996 No.33 pp.268-269
Legislation Creating:
Statutory Rules 1996 No.31
Legislation Abolishing Agency:
State Service (Restructuring) Order 2006 (SR 2006 No 21)
Functions Performed:
Workplace management
Subsequent Agencies:
Department of Justice and Industrial Relations (TA1535)18 Sep 199801 Feb 2004

Workplace Standards Tasmania (TA1711)05 Apr 200601 Oct 2013