A number of amendments to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act were also made. The Act was revised to require the democratic control of unions by their rank-and-file members, to require that a union's rules should provide for full participation of its members in its affairs, and prohibited the dismissal of an elected official “unless he is found guilty of misappropriation of funds, gross misbehaviour or gross neglect of duty.” The Act was also revised to prevent returning officers from rejecting a defective nomination “without giving the candidate seven days in which to correct the defect,” to debar union officials from rejecting a rival's nomination for office, and to prohibit a union official or employee “being appointed as that union’s returning officer.”