Workplace Relations Amendment Regulations 2008 (No. 2) (Cth)

Workplace Relations Amendment Regulations 2008 (No. 2)¹

Select Legislative Instrument 2008 No. 39

I, PHILIP MICHAEL JEFFERY, Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Workplace Relations Act 1996.

Dated 27 March 2008

P. M. JEFFERY

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

JULIA GILLARD

Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations

Name of Regulations

These Regulations are the Workplace Relations Amendment Regulations 2008 (No. 2).

Commencement

These Regulations commence on the day after they are registered.

Amendment of Workplace Relations Regulations 2006

Schedule 1 amends the Workplace Relations Regulations 2006.

Schedule 1 Amendments

(regulation 3)

[1] Chapter 6, Part 4, regulation 4.3, heading

substitute

4.3Other criteria for registration of transitionally registered association — being substantially identical to another body

[2] Chapter 6, Part 4, after regulation 4.3

insert

4.4Other criteria for registration of transitionally registered association — coverage rules

Section 19 of the Registration and Accountability of Organisations Schedule applies in relation to the association as if the section required the Commission to refuse to grant an application for registration made by the association unless the rules of the association state that the association is eligible to represent members only within the State in which it had been registered as a State‑registered association immediately before its registration as a transitionally registered association.

Note

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