(1) The FWC may cancel the registration of an organisation:
(a) on application by the organisation made under the regulations; or
(b) on application by an organisation or person interested or by the Minister, if the FWC has satisfied itself, as prescribed, that the organisation:
(i) was registered by mistake; or
(ii) is no longer effectively representative of the members who are employers or employees, as the case requires; or
(iii) is not free from control by, or improper influence from, a person or body referred to in paragraph 19(1)(b) or 20(1)(b), as the case requires; or
(iv) subject to subsection (6), if the organisation is an enterprise association--the enterprise to which it relates has ceased to exist; or
(c) on the FWC's own motion, if:
(i) the FWC has satisfied itself, as prescribed, that the organisation is defunct; or
(ii) the organisation is an organisation of employees, other than an enterprise association, and has fewer than 50 members who are employees; or
(iii) the organisation is an enterprise association and has fewer than 20 members who are employees; or
(iv) the organisation is an organisation of employers and the members who are employers have, in the aggregate, throughout the 6 months before the application, not employed on an average taken per month at least 50 employees; or
(v) the organisation is not, or is no longer, a federally registrable association.
(2) Before the FWC cancels the registration of an organisation under:
(a) paragraph (1)(b) on application by a person interested or by the Minister; or
(b) paragraph (1)(c);
the FWC must give the organisation an opportunity to be heard.
(3) The FWC may also cancel the registration of an organisation if:
(a) the FWC is satisfied that the organisation has breached an undertaking referred to in subsection 19(2); and
(b) the FWC does not consider it appropriate to amend the eligibility rules of the organisation under section 157.
(4) A cancellation under subsection (3) may be made:
(a) on application by an organisation or person interested; or
(b) on application by the Minister; or
(c) on FWC's own motion.
(5) For the purposes of subparagraph (1)(b)(iv), the enterprise to which an organisation relates has ceased to exist if:
(a) in the case of an organisation that relates only to an operationally distinct part or parts of the business that constitutes the enterprise--that part or those parts have ceased to exist, or the whole of the business has ceased to exist; or
(b) in the case of an organisation that relates to the whole of the business that constitutes the enterprise--the whole of the business has ceased to exist.
(6) Subparagraph (1)(b)(iv) does not apply if:
(a) some or all of the business of the enterprise in question is now conducted by another enterprise; and
(b) all the alterations that are necessary to enable the organisation to operate as an enterprise association in relation to the other enterprise have been made; and
(c) the FWC is satisfied that the organisation still meets the requirements of subsection 20(1).
The FWC must give the organisation a reasonable opportunity to alter its rules as provided in paragraph (b) before the FWC considers cancelling the registration of the organisation on the ground referred to in subparagraph (1)(b)(iv).