33.8. A person who, in accordance with section 15.5 of the Regulation respecting the issuance of competency certificates (chapter R-20, r. 5), obtained, between 1 May 2007 and 18 July 2013, an exemption from the obligation to hold a competency certificate as an operator of concrete pumps equipped with a distribution mast, is exempted from the qualification examination referred to in Division IV and may obtain a journeyman competency certificate corresponding to that speciality in accordance with the provisions of section 1.2 of the Regulation respecting the issuance of competency certificates, as if that person had been exempted from that examination pursuant to section 11 of this Regulation.