Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(a) an application was lodged under section 46 for exemption from the requirement that a ballot be held in relation to a proposed amalgamation; and
(b) the total number of members that could be admitted to membership of the proposed amalgamated organisation on, and because of, the amalgamation does not exceed 25% of the number of members of the applicant organisation on the day on which the application was lodged;
the FWC must, at the conclusion of the hearing arranged under section 53 in relation to the amalgamation, grant the exemption unless the FWC considers that, in the special circumstances of the case, the exemption should be refused.
(2) If the exemption is granted, the members of the applicant
organisation are taken to have approved the proposed principal amalgamation
and each proposed alternative amalgamation (if any).