Workplace Relations Amendment Regulations 2008 (No. 2)1

Select Legislative Instrument 2008 No. 39

I, PHILIP MICHAEL JEFFERY, GovernorGeneral 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

GovernorGeneral

By His Excellency’s Command

JULIA GILLARD

Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations

1 Name of Regulations

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

2 Commencement

  These Regulations commence on the day after they are registered.

3 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

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

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

insert

4.4 Other 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 Stateregistered association immediately before its registration as a transitionally registered association.

Note

1. All legislative instruments and compilations are registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments kept under the Legislative Instruments Act 2003. See http://www.frli.gov.au.