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### sec.964 References in new State instruments to federal organisations
This section applies if a term of a new State instrument is expressed to refer to a federal organisation.
From the relevant day, the term is taken to refer instead to an organisation under this Act of which the federal organisation is a counterpart federal body.
If the federal organisation is not a counterpart federal body of an organisation under this Act, the federal organisation is taken to be an organisation under this Act for the representation in the State system of the employees of the declared employer.
Subsection (3) stops applying to the federal organisation when the new State instrument stops applying to the relevant declared employer.
This section has effect subject to—
a contrary intention in this Act; and
a regulation.
(sec.964-ssec.1) This section applies if a term of a new State instrument is expressed to refer to a federal organisation.
(sec.964-ssec.2) From the relevant day, the term is taken to refer instead to an organisation under this Act of which the federal organisation is a counterpart federal body.
(sec.964-ssec.3) If the federal organisation is not a counterpart federal body of an organisation under this Act, the federal organisation is taken to be an organisation under this Act for the representation in the State system of the employees of the declared employer.
(sec.964-ssec.4) Subsection (3) stops applying to the federal organisation when the new State instrument stops applying to the relevant declared employer.
(sec.964-ssec.5) This section has effect subject to— a contrary intention in this Act; and a regulation.
- (a) a contrary intention in this Act; and
- (b) a regulation.