Queensland Consolidated Acts

WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT 2011 - SECT 357

357 Confidentiality

(1) Despite the repeal of the repealed Act, each of the following provisions of the repealed Act continues to apply in relation to a report or information to which the provision applied immediately before the commencement—

(a) section 108B(7);

(b) section 110KA(7);

(c) section 110P(5);

(d) section 110T(5).

(2) Also, despite the repeal of the repealed Act—

(a) section 133 of the repealed Act continues to apply in relation to the disclosure of information obtained before the commencement; and

(b) section 133A of the repealed Act continues to apply in relation to information or a document acquired or accessed before the commencement; and

(c) section 136 of the repealed Act continues to apply in relation to identifying particulars obtained before the commencement; and

(d) section 138 of the repealed Act continues to apply in relation to a decision of the Authority made before the commencement.

(3) Without limiting the Acts Interpretation Act 1954, section 20, a proceeding for an offence against section 133 or 133A of the repealed Act may be continued or started, and the person may be convicted of and punished for the offence, as if the amendment Act, section 35 had not commenced.

(4) Subsection (3) applies—

(a) despite the Criminal Code , section 11 ; and

(b) whether the disclosure of information mentioned in section 133(1) or 133A(1) occurred before or occurs after the commencement.