Machinery Act 1950

Reprint as at 1 May 2011

Machinery Act 1950

Public Act1950 No 52
Date of assent23 November 1950
Commencementsee section 1(2)
Note

Changes authorised by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 have been made in this reprint.

A general outline of these changes is set out in the notes at the end of this reprint, together with other explanatory material about this reprint.

This Act is administered by the Department of Labour.

Contents

Title

1 Short Title and commencement

2 Interpretation

Exceptions from Act

3 Machinery to which Act does not apply

4 Act not to apply to steamships, tramways, etc [Repealed]

Inspection

5 Appointment of Inspectors

6 Powers of Inspectors

7 Non-disclosure of information [Repealed]

8 Owners to allow entry and inspection

9 Obstruction of Inspector

10 Inspector's certificate of appointment

11 False certificate

Employment of young persons

[Repealed]

12 Young persons not to be employed in certain cases [Repealed]

Duties and liabilities of owners of machinery

[Repealed]

13 Persons having machinery subject to Act to notify Inspector [Repealed]

14 Notice of sale, etc, of machinery [Repealed]

Safety provisions

15 Guarding of prime movers

16 Guarding of transmission machinery

17 Guarding of other machinery

17A Machinery to be safe when manufactured, sold, or hired

17B Provisions may be modified [Repealed]

17C Power controls

17D Construction and maintenance of machinery

17E Protection from harmful noise [Repealed]

18 Duties of users of machinery

19 Restriction on use of machinery if person exposed to risk of injury [Repealed]

19A Persons not to operate machinery unless trained [Repealed]

20 Faulty, defective, and insufficiently guarded machinery

21 Requisitions by Inspectors

21A Regulation of amusement devices

21B Safety of tractors [Repealed]

21C Children on tractors and implements [Repealed]

22 Inspector to be notified of accident [Repealed]

23 Inquiry into cause of accident

24 Record of accidents

Procedure as to requisitions by Inspector

25 Form and service of requisitions

26 Appeals against requisitions

26A Codes of practice

26B Codes of practice to be approved by Minister

26C Proof of codes of practice

Offences, penalties, and procedure

27 Offences

28 When owners and mortgagees not liable

29 Penalties

30 Application of part of fine to person injured [Repealed]

31 Power to order contravention to be remedied [Repealed]

32 Forging of certificates, etc

33 Owner may have actual offender charged

34 Proceedings to be before District Court Judge alone

35 Provisions as to procedure

Miscellaneous provisions

36 Matters may be completed by different Inspectors

37 Responsibility of owners, etc, maintained

38 Service of notices, etc

39 Regulations [Repealed]

40 Savings [Repealed]

41 Act to be administered by Department of Labour

42 Act to bind the Crown

Reprint notes

An Act to make provision for the inspection of certain kinds of machinery and for the safety of persons working with machinery to which the Act applies