New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATION 2001 - REG 32

32 Savings and transitional arrangements

(1) The OHS consultation arrangements must be implemented within 12 months after the commencement of the Act, except as provided by subclause (2).

(2) An OHS committee under the former Act may (but need not) be retained for the purposes of the OHS consultation arrangements. Replacement OHS consultation arrangements must be implemented:

(a) within 3 months after the end of the terms of office of the members of the committee, or

(b) within 2 years of the commencement of this Regulation, whichever first occurs.

Note: Clause 8 of Schedule 3 to the Act provides that OHS committees established under the former Act are taken to be established under the new Act and that the regulations may provide for the staged implementation of the duties of consultation imposed by the new Act.

(3) Any course of training of a member of an OHS committee or an OHS representative that was undertaken for the purposes of and in accordance with the regulations under the former Act is taken to have been undertaken for the purposes of and in accordance with this Regulation.

(4) Until the expiration of 3 months after the commencement of this Regulation, a course of training that complies with the Occupational Health and Safety (Committees in Workplaces) Regulation 1999 is taken to be a course of training for the purposes of clause 31.

(5) A trainer accredited by WorkCover in accordance with the regulation referred to in subclause (4) is taken to have been accredited by WorkCover under clause 31.