Western Australian Current Acts

WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT 2020 - SECT 380

380 .         Members of Work Health and Safety Commission

        (1)         The person who, immediately before commencement day, is the member of the Commission for Occupational Safety and Health appointed under section 6(2)(a) of OSHA is taken to have been appointed as the member of the Work Health and Safety Commission under Schedule 1 clause 10(2)(a) at the beginning of commencement day.

        (2)         A person who, immediately before commencement day, is a member of the Commission for Occupational Safety and Health appointed under a subparagraph of section 6(2)(d) of OSHA is taken to have been appointed, at the beginning of commencement day, as a member of the Work Health and Safety Commission under the subparagraph of Schedule 1 clause 10(2)(d) that corresponds to the subparagraph of section 6(2)(d) of OSHA.

        (3)         A person who is a member of the Work Health and Safety Commission under subsection (1) or (2) holds office —

            (a)         with the conditions of service that applied to the person’s appointment under OSHA; and

            (b)         subject to Schedule 1 clause 12, for a term equal to the balance of the term of the person’s appointment under OSHA.

        (4)         The person retains all existing and accruing rights as if the person’s appointment as a member of the Work Health and Safety Commission were a continuation of the person’s appointment under OSHA.

        (5)         The person who, immediately before commencement day, is the deputy chairperson of the Commission for Occupational Safety and Health under section 6A of OSHA is taken to have been appointed deputy chairperson of the Work Health and Safety Commission under Schedule 1 clause 11 at the beginning of commencement day.