(1) An application to the Federal Court under subsection 69(1) of the Act for an inquiry must be:
(a) in the form set out in the Federal Court Rules; and
(b) made by:
(i) a member of the organisation whose members were eligible to vote in the ballot; or
(ii) a person acting on behalf of a member mentioned in subparagraph (i); or
(iii) the Electoral Commissioner; and
(c) lodged in the Federal Court together with any document that the Federal Court Rules require to be lodged with the application.
(2) For this Division, an inquiry is taken to have been instituted when an application mentioned in subregulation (1) is lodged.