Queensland Consolidated Acts

WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT 2011 - SECT 283

283 Principal contractor

(1) This section applies if, immediately before the repeal of the repealed Act, a person is the principal contractor for construction work because of an appointment under the repealed Act, section 184A .

(2) The person is taken to continue to be the principal contractor for the construction work for a provision under a regulation that mentions a principal contractor (a
"principal contractor" regulation).

(3) Subsection (2) does not apply if—

(a) a regulation in effect defines or limits who is a principal contractor for the principal contractor regulation; and

(b) the person is not a principal contractor as so defined or limited.