Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) If:
(a) the rules of an organisation require a member to pay dues in relation to the person's membership of the organisation; and
(b) the member has not paid the amount; and
(c) a continuous period of 24 months has elapsed since the amount became payable; and
(d) the member's name has not been removed from the register kept by the organisation under paragraph 230(1)(a);
the organisation must remove the name and postal address of the member from the register within 12 months after the end of the 24 month period.
Civil penalty: 60 penalty units.
(2) In calculating a period for the purposes of paragraph (1)(c), any period in relation to which the member was not required by the rules of the organisation to pay the dues is to be disregarded.
(3) A person whose name is removed from the register under this section ceases to be a member of the organisation on the day his or her name is removed. This subsection has effect in spite of anything in the rules of the organisation.
Note: A non - financial member's membership might cease and his or her name be removed from the register earlier than is provided for by this section if the organisation's own rules provide for this to happen.