Queensland Consolidated Regulations

WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATION 2011 - REG 727

727 Existing exemption—high risk work

(1) This section applies if—

(a) before the commencement, the chief executive has granted an exemption from holding a licence to perform a class of high risk work mentioned in column 1 of the table (the
"column 1 class" ) to a person under section 21 of the repealed WHS regulation; and

(b) immediately before the commencement, the exemption is in force.

(2) On the commencement—

(a) the regulator is taken to exempt the person under section 686 from compliance with a provision of this regulation requiring the person to hold a high risk work licence for the class of high risk work mentioned in column 2 of the table shown opposite the column 1 class; and

(b) any restrictions placed on the exemption under section 21(7) of the repealed WHS regulation continue to apply to the exemption.

(3) The exemption ends on the earlier of the following—

(a) when the exemption would otherwise have ended under the repealed WHS regulation;

(b) the end of 31 December 2012.

(4) If the person was exempt from holding a licence to perform the licence class intermediate boiler operator under the repealed WHS regulation, in addition to being exempt from holding a licence to carry out the licence class standard boiler operation, the person continues to be exempt from holding a licence to perform the licence class intermediate boiler operator under the repealed WHS regulation until the earlier of the following—

(a) when the exemption would otherwise have ended under the repealed WHS regulation;

(b) the end of 31 December 2012.