Queensland Consolidated Acts

WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT 2011 - SECT 294

294 Warrants and actions by inspectors preserved

(1) A warrant issued under the repealed Act, part 9 , division 2 , and in force immediately before the repeal, continues to have effect for the purposes of an investigation to which section 282 applies.

(2) A power exercised by an inspector before the repeal—

(a) if the context permits, continues to have effect for the purposes of this Act; and

(b) if the context permits, is taken to have been exercised under a corresponding provision of this Act.

(3) However, subsection (2) does not apply to an exercise of an inspector’s power to which section 289 , 295 or 296 applies.

(4) In this section—

"corresponding provision" means a provision of this Act that corresponds to a provision of the repealed Act under which the power mentioned in subsection (2) was exercised.