Employment Relations (Secret Ballot for Strikes) Amendment Bill

I seek leave of the Committee to reconsider clause 2 to replace the reference in subclause (1AA) to clause 6A with a reference to clause 4A.

The CHAIRPERSON (Lindsay Tisch): Is there any objection to that course of action being taken?

I raise a point of order, Mr Chairperson. We require a little bit more of an explanation behind that proposed amendment.

The CHAIRPERSON (Lindsay Tisch): Sure, I can explain that to you. What has happened is that new clause 4A has just been passed, which we have just voted on. What happened is that when clause 2 was debated and passed earlier on—not today but at a previous sitting of the Committee—a mistake was made. What happens now is that the member is seeking leave to reconsider clause 2. If you give leave for this to happen, you can vote for or against clause 2 again. It is up for reconsideration. The member is seeking leave of the Committee to reconsider clause 2 to replace the reference in clause (1AA) to clause 6A with a reference to clause 4A, which we have just passed. So he is seeking leave to do that. Do you follow that? I just make the point that a mistake was made at a previous sitting of the Committee of the whole House. This corrects that, but you have the opportunity to vote for the leave. We still come back to clause 2 again, to reconsider it, so you have the opportunity to vote for or against it. I am putting the leave. Leave is sought for that purpose. Is there any objection? There is objection.

New clause 5A Requirement for society’s rules to include secret ballots for strikes