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Government Investigations in Singapore 2025
We have contributed the Singapore chapter of Getting the Deal Through, Government Investigations 2025.
Australia | Publication | April 2024
This article was co-authored with Isobelle Martin.
On 21 March 2024, the Queensland Parliament passed the Work Health and Safety and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2024 (Qld) which substantively amended the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (Qld) (WHS Act). These amendments make good on implementing the raft of recommendations from the recent five-yearly review of the WHS Act and changes to the national model WHS laws. This article contains a snapshot of the key changes.
The WHS Act and the Safety in Recreational Water Activities Act 2011 (Qld) (SRWA Act) have been amended to prohibit a person from entering into, providing or taking the benefit of contracts of insurance, indemnities or other arrangements that insure or indemnify a person for liability for a monetary penalty under the legislation. This closer aligns with the position in New South Wales, Victoria, and Western Australia.
Key details about this new prohibition:
The amendments implement changes to bolster the existing health and safety representative (HSR) framework by:
Proactively provide workers with specific information about HSRs and work groups | Notify a HSR when an inspector or WHS entry permit holder is on site | Provide copies of enforcement notices, entry notices and mandatory incident notifications to a HSR |
While discriminatory conduct is already prohibited, this is further aligned to the Industrial Relations Act 2016 (Qld) by:
There are two key changes that affect Workplace Health and Safety Queensland (WHSQ):
Further amendments will be made to clarify the power of WHS entry permit holders, including:
Organisations and their officers should:
Further changes to Queensland’s safety legislation are anticipated in 2024, with the Electrical Safety Act 2002 (Qld) currently being reviewed.
If you would like to discuss the proposed changes in more detail, including what they may mean for your organisation, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
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We have contributed the Singapore chapter of Getting the Deal Through, Government Investigations 2025.
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The private credit market and direct lending have grown and diversified immensely in the past decade, offering alternative sources and terms of debt compared to those historically provided by the syndicated leveraged loan and public issuance markets. Consequently, they are fast becoming pivotal components in the capital ecosystem, so much so that the Bank of England consider that the private credit market is currently responsible for approximately $1.8 trillion of debt issuance, which is four times its size in 2015. This growth has been particularly pronounced in Europe and the US but there has also been significant activity in Asia.
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