23Objection to registration (s 18)

23 Objection to registration (s 18)

(1) Any interested organisation, association or person (the objector) may, no later than 35 days after a notice under regulation 22 is published in the Gazette, lodge with the FWC a notice of objection to the registration of the association. (2) The notice of objection must: (a) be in the form set out in the Procedural Rules or in a form otherwise approved by the President; and (b) be lodged with the FWC; and (c) 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 of objection on the association. (5) An association: (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 association 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 that statement on the objector.