Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

FAIR WORK (REGISTERED ORGANISATIONS) ACT 2009 - SECT 9

  (1)   In this Act, office , in relation to an organisation or a branch of an organisation means:

  (a)   an office of president, vice president, secretary or assistant secretary of the organisation or branch; or

  (b)   the office of a voting member of a collective body of the organisation or branch, being a collective body that has power in relation to any of the following functions:

  (i)   the management of the affairs of the organisation or branch;

  (ii)   the determination of policy for the organisation or branch;

  (iii)   the making, alteration or rescission of rules of the organisation or branch;

  (iv)   the enforcement of rules of the organisation or branch, or the performance of functions in relation to the enforcement of such rules; or

  (c)   an office the holder of which is, under the rules of the organisation or branch, entitled to participate directly in any of the functions referred to in subparagraphs   (b)(i) and (iv), other than an office the holder of which participates only in accordance with directions given by a collective body or another person for the purpose of implementing:

  (i)   existing policy of the organisation or branch; or

  (ii)   decisions concerning the organisation or branch; or

  (d)   an office the holder of which is, under the rules of the organisation or branch, entitled to participate directly in any of the functions referred to in subparagraphs   (b)(ii) and (iii); or

  (e)   the office of a person holding (whether as trustee or otherwise) property:

  (i)   of the organisation or branch; or

  (ii)   in which the organisation or branch has a beneficial interest.

  (2)   In this Act, a reference to an office in an association or organisation includes a reference to an office in a branch of the association or organisation.