Queensland Consolidated Acts

WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT 2011 - SECT 291

291 Workplace health and safety committee preserved

(1) This section applies to a workplace health and safety committee established for a workplace under the repealed Act, section 86 and in existence immediately before the repeal of the repealed Act.

(2) From the repeal, the committee continues as the health and safety committee for the workplace taken to be established under part 5 , division 4 of this Act.

(3) However, if the constitution of the committee is inconsistent with the requirements for a health and safety committee under section 76 of this Act, the constitution must be adjusted to comply with section 76 within 1 year after the repeal (the
"transitional period" ).

(4) After the transitional period, if subsection (3) has not been complied with, the person conducting the business undertaking or the workers who must agree to the constitution of the committee under section 76 (1) of this Act may ask the regulator to appoint an inspector to decide the matter.

(5) The inspector must decide the appropriate constitution of the committee.