Queensland Consolidated Acts

WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT 2011 - SECT 282

282 Investigations and proceedings generally

(1) This section does not limit sections 280 and 281 .

(2) This section applies to an offence committed by a person against the repealed Act, for which investigations or proceedings had not been conducted, taken or completed before the repeal.

(3) The investigation or proceedings may be conducted, taken or continued against the person, and the person may be punished, as if the repeal had not happened.

(4) For subsection (3) and for any other provision of this division that authorises the taking or continuation of proceedings under the repealed Act as if it had not been repealed—

(a) a reference in the repealed Act, section 161 (1) , to the chief executive is taken to include a reference to the regulator; and

(b) a reference in the repealed Act, section 164 (5) , to the chief executive is taken to be a reference to the regulator, if proceedings are started after the repeal.