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inspection shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of $500 and to imprisonment for 3 months.
38. Power to require detailed accounts
(1) Without prejudice to any other provisions relating to the rendering of accounts, the Registrar may, at any time, call upon a registered trade union to render, in respect of any particular period, an account of the funds of the trade union or any branch thereof, or both, together with a statement of the assets and liabilities thereof, and such account shall show in particular such information, and shall be vouched in such manner, as the Registrar may require and shall be delivered to him within such period as he may specify.
(2) Any registered trade union that fails to comply with a request made by the Registrar under subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of $500.
PART VI
RIGHTS AND LIABILITIES OF TRADE UNIONS
39. Disabilities of unregistered union
Subject to section 9, no trade union shall enjoy any of the rights, immunities or privileges of a registered trade union until it is registered.
40. Registered trade union not criminal
The purposes of any registered trade union shall not, by reason merely that they are in restraint of trade, be deemed to be unlawful so as to render any member of such registered trade union liable to criminal prosecution for conspiracy or otherwise.
41. Registered trade union not unlawful for civil purposes
The purposes of any registered trade union shall not, by reason merely that they are in restraint of trade, be unlawful so as to render void or voidable any agreement or trust.
42. Immunity from civil suit in certain cases
No suit or other legal proceeding shall be maintained in any civil court against a registered trade union in respect of any act done in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute to which a member of such trade union is a party
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