Industrial Relations Act 2016

A regulation may provide for the following—

the joint representation of the members of existing organisations for an amalgamation until the amalgamation day for the amalgamation;

for an amalgamation ballot by proposed members of the proposed amalgamated organisation for the proposed amalgamation;

how an amalgamation ballot must be conducted;

that the commission may inquire into any claimed irregularity in an amalgamation ballot and its powers for the inquiry;

for when an approved amalgamation takes effect;

the effect of an amalgamation on decisions that bound a proposed deregistering organisation for the amalgamation on the amalgamated organisation or its members;

substituting a proposed amalgamated organisation for a proposed deregistering organisation for the proposed amalgamation in pending proceedings;

substituting an amalgamated organisation for an organisation that was deregistered on the amalgamation of the amalgamated organisation in pending proceedings;

any other matter necessary to give effect to an amalgamation.