Industrial Relations Act 1996

Any industrial organisation of employees or employers registered or recognised as such under Chapter 5 of the Industrial Relations Act 1991 immediately before the repeal of that Act is taken to be an industrial organisation of employees or employers registered under this Chapter.

The Industrial Registrar is to record in the register kept under this Chapter whether such an organisation is a State, federal or separate organisation.

If the rules of such an organisation do not comply with the requirements of this Chapter, the organisation must ensure that the rules comply with those requirements within 2 years after the commencement of this section. The Industrial Registrar may notify such an organisation of the requirements with which the rules of the organisation do not comply.

If the rules of such an organisation have not been duly altered within that 2-year period—

in the case of a State organisation, the Industrial Registrar may, by order, alter the rules of the organisation so that they comply with the relevant requirements, or

in any other case, the failure to alter the rules is a ground for the cancellation of the registration of the organisation under Division 2.