Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

FAIR WORK (REGISTERED ORGANISATIONS) ACT 2009 - SECT 196

    In spite of anything in the rules of an organisation or branch of an organisation, where:

  (a)   2 or more candidates are nominated for an election in relation to an office in the organisation or branch; and

  (b)   one of those candidates dies before the close of the ballot;

the election must be discontinued and a new election held.