Thank you for your note.   Perhaps you might let us know the difference between your suggestion that ambiguity might arise because the Act allows 36 months before a non-financial member of an organisation must be removed and the following law which says someone who ceases to be a member must have their name removed within 28 days.

 

 

FAIR WORK (REGISTERED ORGANISATIONS) ACT 2009 - SECT 230

Records to be kept and lodged by organisations

             (1)  An organisation must keep the following records:

                     (a)  a register of its members, showing the name and postal address of each member and showing whether the member became a member under an agreement entered into under rules made under subsection 151(1);

                     (b)  a list of the offices in the organisation and each branch of the organisation;

                     (c)  a list of the names, postal addresses and occupations of the persons holding the offices;

                     (d)  such other records as are prescribed.

Note:          This subsection is a civil penalty provision (see section 305).

             (2)  An organisation must:

                     (a)  enter in the register of its members the name and postal address of each person who becomes a member, within 28 days after the person becomes a member;

                     (b)  remove from that register the name and postal address of each person who ceases to be a member under section 171A, or under the rules of the organisation, within 28 days after the person ceases to be a member; and

                     (c)  enter in that register any change in the particulars shown on the register, within 28 days after the matters necessitating the change become known to the organisation.

Note 1:       This subsection is a civil penalty provision (see section 305).

Note 2:       An organisation may also be required to make alterations to the register of its members under other provisions of this Act (see, for example, sections 170 and 172).