Section Sch1-13 — Health and Safety at Work Act 2015: Transitional provision relating to health and safety representatives

13 Transitional provision relating to health and safety representatives (1) This clause applies to a person who, immediately before the commencement of this clause, was a health and safety representative in accordance with an employee participation system established under section 19C of the Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992 or in accordance with Part 3 of Schedule 1A of that Act. (2) The person continues in that role on and after that commencement and must be treated as if the person had been elected as a health and safety representative in accordance with subpart 2 of Part 3 of this Act. (3) Part 3 of this Act applies, with any necessary modifications, to a person who continues in his or her role under subclause (1) as if, in relation to the representative, references to a work group or members of a work group were references to the group of workers described in the employee participation system or, if none, the workers in the workplace. (4) Subclause (3) is to avoid doubt. (5) However, a person to whom this clause applies may not exercise a power conferred by a provision referred to in subclause (6) unless he or she has completed the prescribed training requirements relating to the exercise of the power. (6) The provisions are— (a) section 69 (which relates to the power to issue a provisional improvement notice): (b) section 84 (which relates to the power to direct unsafe work to cease).