Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2007C00183:clause:13_52
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2007C00183
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 13 cl 52
Character Range: 960787–961739

52  Commission may order secret ballot

 (1) If:
 (a) an organisation is concerned in an industrial dispute with which the Commission is empowered to deal under this Schedule (whether or not proceedings in relation to the dispute are before the Commission); and
 (b) the Commission considers that the prevention or settlement of the industrial dispute might be helped by finding out the attitudes of the members, or the members of a section or class of the members, of the organisation or a branch of the organisation in relation to a matter;
the Commission may order that a vote of the members be taken by secret ballot (with or without provision for absent voting), in accordance with directions given by the Commission, for the purpose of finding out their attitudes to the matter.

 (2) The powers of the Commission to make an order under subclause (1), and to revoke such an order, are exercisable only by a Presidential Member or a Full Bench.