Industrial Relations Act 2016

This section applies to an act done in good faith by an organisation, a collective body or officer of an organisation or a purported collective body or officer of an organisation.

The act is not invalid only because—

of an invalidity discovered later in—

the election or appointment of a collective body or officer of the organisation; or

the organisation’s rules; or

making, amending or repealing a rule of the organisation; or

of an absence of quorum or other procedural irregularity; or

the organisation has a counterpart federal body.

In this section—

an act is taken to be done in good faith unless proved otherwise; and

a person who has purported to be a member of a collective body is taken to have done so in good faith unless proved otherwise; and

knowledge of facts from which an invalidity arose is not by itself knowledge of the invalidity; and

an invalidity is taken not to be discovered until known by a majority of the members of the management committee of the organisation.

This section—

does not affect the operation of part 7 or an election inquiry under part 8; and

does not validate an expulsion, suspension, fine or penalty for a member of the organisation if that act would not have been valid had this section not been enacted; and

applies to an action done—

before or after this section commences; or

concerning an association that became an organisation after the act was done.