Queensland Consolidated Acts

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT 2016 - SECT 617

617 Requirements for all organisations

(1) An organisation’s rules must state the following—

(a) the organisation’s objectives;

(b) the organisation’s eligibility rules;

(c) how and when—

(i) a person may become a member of the organisation; or

(ii) a person may resign from membership of the organisation; or

(iii) a person’s membership of the organisation ends, other than by resignation;

(d) the functions and powers of the organisation’s committees, branch committees, office holders and branch office holders;

(e) how meetings of the organisation’s committees, branches and members may be called;

(f) how the organisation’s committees are controlled by the members of the organisation;

(g) how committees of the organisation’s branches are controlled by members of the branch;

(h) how documents may be signed for the organisation;

(i) that notice must be given by a stated authorised office holder to the commission of the existence or likelihood of industrial disputes, in the way required under section 261 ;

(j) how the organisation’s property is controlled and its funds are invested;

(k) any conditions for spending the organisation’s funds;

(l) that, unless exempted under part 12 , the organisation’s accounts must be audited yearly or in another more frequent period;

(m) that, unless exempted under part 12 , the organisation must keep a members register, arranged according to branches if it has branches;

(n) how the rules may be amended;

(o) that applicants for membership of the organisation must be informed in writing of—

(i) a member’s financial obligations; and

(ii) how and when a member may resign from membership.

(2) In this section—

"committee" , of an organisation or branch of an organisation, means—

(a) its management committee; or

(b) any other collective body of its members or officers, however described, that may do any of the following—

(i) manage its affairs;

(ii) decide its policy;

(iii) make, amend or repeal its rules;

(iv) enforce its rules.