Federally registrable employee associations
18B Federally registrable employee associations
An association of employees is federally registrable if:
it is a constitutional corporation; or
some or all of its members are federal system employees.
An association of employees is not federally registrable if it has a member who is not one of the following:
an employee;
a person specified in subsection (4);
an independent contractor who, if he or she were an employee performing work of the kind which he or she usually performs as an independent contractor, would be an employee eligible for membership of the association;
an officer of the association.
The persons specified for the purpose of paragraph (3)(b) are persons (other than employees) who:
are, or are able to become, members of an industrial organisation of employees within the meaning of the Industrial Relations Act 1996 of New South Wales; or
are employees for the purposes of the Industrial Relations Act 1999 of Queensland; or
are employees for the purposes of the Industrial Relations Act 1979 of Western Australia; or
are employees for the purposes of the Industrial and Employee Relations Act 1994 of South Australia.
An association of employees is not federally registrable if:
it is only a body corporate because it is or has been registered under this Act (whether before or after the commencement of this subsection); and
it is not the case that some or all of the association’s members are federal system employees.
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