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The powers of the Registrar of Trade Unions to intervene to protect
the interests of ordinary members are strengthened in some respects because
registration does not of itself ensure that inions will be properly
administered.
The Registrar is empowered by the bill to initiate action to prevent
an ineligible person from becoming a member of a union or an ineligible member
from holding office or seeking election.
He is also empowered to require details and accounts of every branch,
business, and undertaking of a trade union.
A minor amendment is made to section 46 of the ordinance, which
deals with picketing, so as to provont picketing taking place elsewhere than
at a person's place of work.
Not Exposed To Ploketing
It is thought that a private residence, and the members of a person's
family who live there, should not be exposed to picketing, as they may lawfully
be at present.
By section 47 of the ordinance, the use of violence, the intimidation
of a person or a member of a person's family, persistent following, hiding
property, watching or besetting a house or work place, and following in a
disorderly manner may already constitute the offence of intimidation.
The section is amended to include the blocking of, or causing an
obstruction in, a street or a road, if this is done to compel a person to do
or not to do something.
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