AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

SCAFFOLDING AND LIFTS ORDINANCE 1968

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

No. 5 of 1968

	The above Ordinance will amend the Scaffolding and Lifts Ordinance 1957‑1966 by amending Part II of the Schedule to the Ordinance.  The amendment will change paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (z.) of Regulation 121 of the Scaffolding and Lifts Regulations are applicable in the Australian Capital Territory which currently provides for one closet for each twenty persons or part of twenty persons employed on a building site.  The new paragraph will provide for one closet for each ten workmen or part of ten workmen employed on a site.

2.	The amendment will bring the Scaffolding and Lifts Regulations into conformity with sub-regulation (2) of Regulation 25 of the Public Health (General Sanitation) Regulations.

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