139 (1) If an accredited employers’ organization does not make a collective agreement with the trade union or council of trade unions, as the case may be, within one year after its accreditation, any of the employers in the unit of employers determined in the accreditation certificate may apply to the Board only during the two months following the said one year for a declaration that the accredited employers’ organization no longer represents the employers in the unit of employers. Same (2) Any of the employers in the unit of employers defined in a collective agreement between an accredited employers’ organization and a trade union or council of trade unions, as the case may be, may apply to the Board only during the last two months of its operation for a declaration that the accredited employers’ organization no longer represents the employers in the unit of employers. Determination by Board (3) Upon an application under subsection (1) or (2), the Board shall ascertain, (a) the number of employers in the unit of employers on the date of the making of the application; (b) the number of employers in the unit of employers who, within the two-month period immediately preceding the date of the making of the application, have voluntarily signified in writing that they no longer wish to be represented by the accredited employers’ organization; and (c) the number of employees affected by the application of employers in the unit of employers on the payroll of each employer for the weekly payroll period immediately preceding the date of the making of the application or if, in the opinion of the Board, the payroll period is unsatisfactory for any one or more of the employers in clause (a), such other weekly payroll period for any one or more of the said employers as the Board considers advisable. Declaration by Board (4) If the Board is satisfied, (a) that a majority of the employers in clause (3) (a) has voluntarily signified in writing that they no longer wish to be represented by the accredited employers’ organization; and (b) that such majority of employers employed a majority of the employees in clause (3) (c), the Board shall declare that the employers’ organization that was accredited or that was or is a party to the collective agreement, as the case may be, no longer represents the employers in the unit of employers. Declaration of termination on abandonment (5) Upon an application under subsection (1) or (2), when the employers’ organization informs the Board that it does not desire to continue to represent the employers in the unit of employers, the Board may declare that the employers’ organization no longer represents the employers in the unit. Effect of declaration (6) Upon the Board making a declaration under subsection (4) or (5), (a) any collective agreement in operation between the trade union or council of trade unions and the employers’ organization that is binding upon the employers in the unit of employers ceases to operate forthwith; (b) all rights, duties and obligations under this Act of the employers’ organization revert with necessary modifications to the individual employers represented by the employers’ organization; and (c) the trade union or council of trade unions, as the case may be, is entitled to give to any employer in the unit of employers a written notice of its desire to bargain with a view to making a collective agreement, and the notice has the same effect as a notice under section 14.  1995, c. 1, Sched. A, s. 139.