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Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Regulations 2009
124Change of name or alteration of eligibility rules of organisation—objections (s 158)
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#### 124 Change of name or alteration of eligibility rules of organisation—objections (s 158)
(1) Any interested organisation, association or person (the objector) may, no later than 35 days after a notice of the receipt of an application under subregulation 121(1) (the original application) is published in the Gazette, lodge with the FWC a notice of objection to the change of name, or the alteration of the eligibility rules, to which the original application relates.
(2) The notice of objection must:
(a) be lodged with the FWC; and
(b) comply with the requirements of regulation 14.
(3) The FWC may allow an objector to amend a notice of objection if:
(a) a further application is made; and
(b) the objector satisfies the FWC that the objector has further grounds for objection arising from the application mentioned in paragraph (a).
(4) Within 7 days after a notice of objection is lodged with the FWC, the objector must serve a copy of the notice on the organisation that lodged the original application.
(5) An organisation:
(a) may, no later than 14 days after service on it under subregulation (4) of a copy of the notice of objection, lodge with the FWC, in answer to the objection, a written statement signed by an officer of the organisation authorised to sign the statement; and
(b) must, no later than 7 days after lodging a written statement under paragraph (a), serve a copy of the statement on the objector.