Workplace Relations (Registration and Accountability of Organisations) Amendment Regulations 2007 (No. 1) (Cth)

Workplace Relations (Registration and Accountability of Organisations) Amendment Regulations 2007 (No. 1)¹

Select Legislative Instrument 2007 No. 307

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 26 September 2007

P. M. JEFFERY

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

JOE HOCKEY

Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations

Name of Regulations

These Regulations are the Workplace Relations (Registration and Accountability of Organisations) Amendment Regulations 2007 (No. 1).

Commencement

These Regulations commence on the day after they are registered.

Amendment of Workplace Relations (Registration and Accountability of Organisations) Regulations 2003

Schedule 1 amends the Workplace Relations (Registration and Accountability of Organisations) Regulations 2003.

Schedule 1 Amendment

(regulation 3)

[1] After regulation 114D

insert in Part 4A

114ERepresentation rights — Australian Nursing Federation, Industrial Union of Workers Perth

(1)For subsection 138A (1) of the RAO Schedule, this regulation applies in relation to:

(a)the Australian Nursing Federation, Industrial Union of Workers Perth (the Federation); and

(b)the Australian Nursing Federation (the ANF), of which the Federation was formerly a State branch.

(2)For the application of the RAO Schedule, and regulations 114A to 114D, in relation to the Federation:

(a)the Commission must not make an order under section 133 of the RAO Schedule in favour of the ANF if the order would apply to employees whom the Federation was entitled to represent immediately before it withdrew from the ANF; and

(b)if the Commission made, or makes, an order under section 133 of the RAO Schedule in favour of the ANF, the order does not apply to the Federation.

(3)For the application of the RAO Schedule, and regulations 114A to 114D, in relation to the Federation, those provisions:

(a)are taken not to prevent the Federation from making an application to the Commission, in its capacity as an organisation, for an order under section 133 of the RAO Schedule in relation to the Federation, other than an order that would apply to the ANF; and

(b)are taken not to prevent the Commission from making an order under section 133 of the RAO Schedule in relation to the Federation, in its capacity as an organisation, other than an order that would apply to the ANF.

(4)Subregulations (2) and (3) cease to have effect at the end of the period of 3 years after this regulation commences.

Note

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