13OHS access cards

13 OHS access cards

(1)  If a person, immediately before the commencement day, holds an OHS access card under the former Act, the card is taken to be a WHS entry permit, issued under the new Act, until whichever of the following events occurs first:

(a) the expiry of the day on which the OHS access card would have ceased to remain in force under the former Act had that Act not been repealed;

(b) the permit expires under section 137 of the new Act;

(c) the permit is revoked under section 140(1)(c) of the new Act.

(2)  If, on the commencement day, an application for an OHS access card had been made under section 22C of the former Act and the Director has not made a decision under section 22E of that Act in relation to that application –

(a) the regulator may make a decision under section 22E in relation to that application as if he or she were the Director and that section had not repealed; and

(b) the requirements of the new Act for the issue of a WHS entry permit to the person are taken to be satisfied; and

(c) instead of issuing an OHS access card, the regulator is to issue the applicant with a WHS entry permit under section 134 of the new Act.