Queensland Consolidated Acts

WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT 2011 - SECT 325

325 Validation of entries in relation to electrical safety contraventions

(1) Subsections (2) and (3) apply to an entry to a workplace by a WHS entry permit holder, made before the commencement purportedly under section 117, to inquire into an electrical safety contravention.

(2) The entry is taken to be, and always to have been, as lawful as it would have been had section 117(1) applied in relation to electrical safety contraventions at the time of the entry.

(3) An exercise of a right under section 118 while at the workplace is taken to be, and always to have been, as lawful as the exercise of the right would have been had section 118(1) applied in relation to electrical safety contraventions at the time of the entry.

(4) Subsection (5) applies to an entry to a workplace by a WHS entry permit holder, made before the commencement purportedly under section 120, to inspect or make copies of employee records or other documents relevant to an electrical safety contravention.

(5) The entry is taken to be, and always to have been, as lawful as it would have been had section 120 applied in relation to electrical safety contraventions at the time of the entry.

(6) In this section—

"electrical safety contravention" means a suspected contravention of the Electrical Safety Act 2002 that occurred on or after 1 January 2012.