FWC may make orders reflecting State representation orders
137F FWC may make orders reflecting State representation orders
If:
the eligibility rules of an organisation of employees have been altered with the consent of the General Manager under section 158A; and
because of the alteration, members of an association of employees that is registered under a State or Territory industrial law (a State registered association) have become eligible for membership of the organisation; and
immediately before the alteration took effect, an order (a State representation order) was in force that:
was made by a State industrial authority in relation to the State registered association; and
was an order of the same kind as, or of a similar kind to, an order that the FWC could make under this Chapter in relation to an organisation;
the FWC may, on application by the organisation or by a party to the State representation order, make an order in relation to the organisation that is to the same effect, or substantially the same effect, as the State representation order.
The order under subsection (1) applies to each organisation that is:
a federal counterpart of the State registered association; or
a federal counterpart of any other association of employees:
that is registered under a State or Territory industrial law; and
to which the State representation order applied.
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