Workplace Relations (Registration and Accountability of Organisations) Regulations
The Workplace Relations (Registration and Accountability of Organisations) Amendment Regulations 2006 (No. 1) amend the Workplace Relations (Registration and Accountability of Organisations) Regulations 2003 made under the RAO Schedule. They:
- make technical amendments consequential to amendments made to the Act and the RAO Schedule by the Work Choices Act;
- insert new regulations which would be made under new section 138A of the RAO Schedule to modify the way in which the RAO Schedule applies to an organisation which, before becoming registered, was a State-registered association or transitionally registered association; and
- make a non-technical amendment under section 6 of the RAO Schedule to ensure that a person whose registration as an auditor under the Corporations Act 2001 has been cancelled cannot be an ‘approved auditor’ for the purposes of the RAO Schedule.
The Regulations will commence at the same time as the proclamation of the reminder of the Work Choices Act on 27 March 2006.
Explanatory Statement
The Workplace Relations Legislation Amendment (Registration and Accountability of Organisations) (Consequential Provisions) Regulations 2003 as contained in Statutory Rules 2003, No.352, were made by the Executive Council on 18 December 2003. The purpose of these transitional Regulations is to provide a member of an organisation with access to prescribed financial information relevant to his or her organisation during the transitional period between the commencement of an organisation's first financial year and when its first auditor's report is made under the RAO Schedule.
The Regulations came into effect on gazettal which occurred on 23 December 2003.
Explanatory Statement
The
Workplace Relations (Registration and Accountability of Organisations) Amendment Regulations 2003 (No.1) as contained in Statutory Rules 2003, No.351, were made by the Executive Council on 18 December 2003. The purpose of these Regulations is to make minor technical amendments and to clarify a number of procedural and notification requirements for organisations' elections. The Regulations also insert a new Part to provide members with access to prescribed financial information in the transitional period between the commencement of the
Workplace Relations Legislation Amendment (Registration and Accountability of Organisations) (Consequential Provisions) Act 2002 and the start of organisation's first financial year under the RAO Schedule.
The Regulations came into effect on gazettal which occurred on 23 December 2003.
Explanatory Statement
The
Workplace Relations (Registration and Accountability of Organisations) Regulations 2003 as contained in Statutory Rules 2003 No.82 were made by the Executive Council on 1 May 2003.
The purpose of these Regulations is to complement the Registration and Accountability of Organisations Schedule (Schedule 1B to the Workplace Relations Act 1996). Many of the regulations replicate, with appropriate amendments, the previous regulations in the Workplace Relations Regulations dealing with registered organisations.
These regulations deal with procedures relating to documents, registration and cancellation of registration of organisations, amalgamation and withdrawal from amalgamation, rules and membership of organisations, democratic control of organisations, records and accounts, and civil penalty provisions.
The Regulations came into effect on 12 May 2003.
Explanatory Statement