... recognised in the workplace the right to appoint safety representatives. Those safety representatives were given certain func-tions and employers were required to give to the representatives, ... theemployee performed, or proposed to perform, the functions ofa representative or a member of a safety committee,(c) being an employee at a workplace where:(i) there was no such representative ... anything likely tobe taken as a statement covering the matters referred to above would befalse if deemed to be a false statement of the relevant matter [s.14 (2) a and(4)].The mental elementIn...