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BUILDERS LABOURERS' FEDERATION LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1990 No. 132 of 1990 - SECT 4

4. (1) Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended:
(a) by omitting from subsection (3) "A non-registered" and substituting
"Subject to subsection (3A), a nonregistered";

   (b)  by inserting after subsection (3) the following subsection:

"(3A) A State association, other than the Building Construction Employees and
Builders Labourers' Federation of New South Wales, may do any of the
following:

   (a)  by leave of the Commission, granted under section 43 of the
        Industrial  Relations Act , intervene in a proceeding before the
        Commission under the Industrial Relations Act in relation to the
        possible exercise by the Commission of its powers under subparagraphs
        111 (1) (g) (i), (ii) and (iii) of the Industrial Relations Act;

   (b)  make an objection under section 253 of the Industrial Relations Act,
        or under regulations made under that Act in relation to a proceeding
        under Part IX of that Act, and be heard in relation to that
        objection.";

   (c)  by omitting subsection (6) and substituting the following subsection:

"(6) Where a State association is a party to, or intervenes in, a proceeding
before a State industrial authority, a member of the Commission is not
prevented by this section from exercising the powers of the Commission under
section 175 of the Industrial Relations Act in the presence of that State
industrial authority.".

(2) Subsection 4 (3A) of the Principal Act, as amended by this Act, does not
apply in relation to a proceeding before the Commission that was instituted
before the commencement of paragraph (1) (b).