Industrial Relations Regulation 2018

This section applies if—

an organisation’s counterpart federal body has amalgamated with another organisation’s counterpart federal body under the Commonwealth Registered Organisations Act; and

the organisations propose to amalgamate under the Act.

The organisations may apply to the commission for an exemption from holding an amalgamation ballot.

The application must—

be filed in the registry with the ballot application for the amalgamation; and

state the grounds on which it is made; and

be signed by the president or secretary of each organisation; and

be accompanied by an affidavit by a member of each applicant’s management committee stating subsection (4)(b) and (c) has been complied with.

An application may be made only if the management committee of each organisation has—

resolved to make the application; and

notified each member of the making of the resolution by—

giving the member a copy of the resolution; or

including the resolution in a publication the organisation gives its members free of charge; and

notified each member of the member’s right to object to the application under section 74 in 1 of the following ways—

personally;

by post, addressed to the member’s residential address;

by including notice of the right in a publication the organisation gives its members free of charge.