7.1. The Commission shall renew, upon application, an occupation competency certificate which could not be renewed under the first paragraph of section 7, if its holder can prove that he has successfully completed a safety course required by the Safety Code for the Construction Industry (chapter S-2.1, r. 4), and that the registers of the Commission show that this person has worked at least 10,000 hours in an occupation in the construction industry since 1 January 1971, unless this person has not worked at least 1 hour in an occupation in the construction industry in a consecutive period of 5 years as of 1 August 1989.