Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) This section
applies if, immediately before commencement day, an election is in process
under a repealed enactment for a safety and health representative in relation
to —
(a)
workers at a workplace; or
(b) any
other type of group of workers.
(2) The election must
be continued and completed, and the repealed enactment continues to apply for
that purpose.
(3) The election must
be completed within the period of 3 months starting on commencement day.
(4) A person who is
elected as a safety and health representative in the election is taken to have
been elected as a health and safety representative under Part 5 Division 3
Subdivision 4 for a work group that corresponds to the group of workers
referred to in subsection (1)(a) or (b).
(5) The person takes
office when the person would have taken office under the repealed enactment.
(6) Subject to
section 64(2), the person holds office until 1 of the following occurs —
(a) the
period of 1 year starting on commencement day expires;
(b) a
member of the work group referred to in subsection (4) makes a request under
section 50 and, in consequence of that request, a person takes office as a
health and safety representative under Part 5 Division 3 Subdivision 4.
(7) This section
applies to an election for a deputy safety and health representative under a
repealed enactment as it applies to an election for a safety and health
representative under the repealed enactment, and, where this section applies
to an election for a deputy safety and health representative, references to a
health and safety representative under Part 5 Division 3 Subdivision 4 are to
a deputy health and safety representative under that Subdivision (except in
subsection (6)(b)).