Queensland Consolidated Regulations

WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATION 2011 - REG 718

718 Existing registration—plant and plant design

(1) This section applies to an item of plant or the design of an item of plant if—

(a) before the commencement, the item of plant or design of the item of plant is registered under part 8, division 2 of the repealed WHS regulation; and

(b) immediately before the commencement, the registration is in force; and

Note—

See section 13 of the repealed WHS regulation for when the registration of the design of an item of plant is in force under that regulation.

(c) on the commencement, the item of plant or design of the item of plant is required to be registered under part 5.3.

(2) On the commencement—

(a) for the item of plant—

(i) the item of plant is taken to be registered by the regulator as an item of plant under part 5.3; and

(ii) despite section 272A, the registration is valid until 31 January 2012; and

(iii) any conditions applying to the registration of the item of plant immediately before the commencement continue to apply; or

(b) for the design of the item of plant—

(i) the design of the item of plant is taken to be registered by the regulator as the design of an item of plant under part 5.3; and

(ii) any conditions applying to the registration of the design of the item of plant immediately before the commencement continue to apply; and

(iii) section 13 of the repealed WHS regulation continues to apply to the design of the item of plant as if a reference in that section to a certificate of registration of registrable plant was a reference to the registration of the design of an item of plant under part 5.3.

(3) A certificate of registration under section 91 of the repealed WHS regulation is taken to be—

(a) for a certificate of registration for an item of plant—a registration document issued by the regulator under section 274 for the item of plant; or

(b) for a certificate of registration for the design of an item of plant—a registration document issued by the regulator under section 261 for the design of the item of plant.

(4) The number on the certificate of registration for an item of plant under the repealed WHS regulation is taken to be the plant registration number under section 273 for the item of plant.

(5) The number on the certificate of registration for the design of an item of plant under the repealed WHS regulation is taken to be the plant design registration number under section 260 for the design of the item of plant.

(6) Sections 8, 9 and 10 of the repealed WHS regulation continue to apply in relation to an item of plant registered under the repealed WHS regulation if, before the commencement—

(a) the plant changed ownership; and

(b) the chief executive had not been given notice of the change of ownership.