New South Wales Consolidated Acts

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT 1996 - SECT 341

341 Certificates of registration etc

(1) On the registration of an association of employing contractors, contract drivers or contract carriers, the Industrial Registrar is to issue to the association a certificate of registration in the form approved by the Industrial Registrar.

(2) Such a certificate is conclusive evidence that the requirements of this Act as to registration have been satisfied.

(3) On application made to the Industrial Registrar by a person claiming to be the secretary of an association of employing contractors, contract drivers or contract carriers, the Industrial Registrar may, if satisfied that the person has been duly elected or appointed as the secretary of the association and that the requirements of the constitution of the association relating to that election or appointment have been complied with, issue a certificate in the form approved by the Industrial Registrar that the person is the secretary of the association.

(4) A document purporting to be a certificate under subsection (3) is admissible in evidence in any proceedings under this Act and, in the absence of proof to the contrary, is evidence that the person specified is the secretary of the association specified in the certificate.

(5) A person to whom a certificate has been issued under subsection (3) must, on ceasing to hold office as secretary of the association specified in the certificate, or on being requested by the Industrial Registrar to do so, forthwith return the certificate to the Industrial Registrar for cancellation.

Maximum penalty: 5 penalty units.