Builders Labourers' Federation (Cancellation of Registration) Act 1986

Costs, incentives and trade‑offs (source‑grounded analysis)

• Concentrated effect: the legal consequence of the Act is concentrated on the named Federation because the Act singles out that organisation for cancellation (s 3). Any immediate compliance burden or loss of statutory status falls on that organisation and, by extension, its members.
• Systemic claim vs. local cost: the Parliament’s preamble frames the cancellation as serving the broader objective of preserving the conciliation and arbitration system. That is a declared purpose; the Act itself implements the specific measure (cancellation). The material trade‑off is that Parliament replaced whatever statutory status the Federation held under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904 with immediate derecognition—how that affects dispute-resolution patterns or private parties depends on the rights and procedures established by the external Act (Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904), which this Act does not restate (s 3).
• Information gap and legal dependence: because the Act does not specify the consequences of losing registration, the practical and legal effects depend on provisions of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904 and any subsequent application or interpretation of that Act to the Federation’s situation. That creates legal dependency: to assess downstream effects precisely, one must examine the other statute and any relevant practice or decisions under it.

Implementation, compliance burden and discretion

• Implementation is immediate and formulaic: the Act cancels registration by statutory operation on Royal Assent (s 2, s 3). There is no administrative discretion or staged compliance process in this Act: the cancellation occurs "by force of this section" (s 3).
• Ongoing compliance burden: the Act itself does not impose ongoing regulatory obligations or processes on third parties. Any new compliance requirements would arise only if other statutes or administrative bodies change their practices in response.

Substitution effects and likely behavioural responses (conditional)

• Removing statutory registration may prompt the named organisation, its members, or other actors to alter how they pursue dispute resolution or representation. Exactly how they respond (for example, seeking re-registration under different terms, using alternative industrial mechanisms, or changing bargaining arrangements) depends on the options and legal pathways available under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904 and other applicable laws; those pathways are not detailed in this Act (s 3).

Bottom line

• The Act performs a single legal act: it cancels the registration of the named Federation under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904, effective on Royal Assent (s 2–3). Parliament states the purpose in the preamble. The concrete consequences for rights, dispute procedures, and behaviour flow from the interaction between this cancellation and the separate statutory regime in the Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904; those downstream effects are not specified in this Act itself.