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Federal Safety Officer must notify the Federal Safety Commissioner immediately of the relevant interest, fact or thing and disclose to the Commissioner the full details of that interest, fact or thing.
    (2)     Examples of interests, facts or things that could cause a Federal Safety Officer to fail to properly exercise a power or perform a function, or that could create a reasonable belief that this might occur, include:
         (a)    if the Federal Safety Officer (or his or her employer) has provided services relating to work health and safety to the person being audited under the Act; or
         (b)    if the Federal Safety Officer had a material interest (such as an ownership interest) in a company being audited by that Federal Safety Officer under the Act.
    These are examples only and are not an exhaustive list of the interests, facts or things that could create an apparent or actual conflict of interest.

14 Failure to comply with General Directions not to affect validity of decisions
    A failure to comply with these General Directions does not affect the validity of any action or decision made by a Federal Safety Officer under the Act, rules made under the Act or the Accreditation Scheme Rules.