Trade Unions and Trade Disputes.
CHAPTER 64.
TRADE UNIONS AND TRADE DISPUTES.
To regulate trade unions and trade disputes.
[1st April, 1948.]
[CAP. 64
8 of 1948.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Trade Unions Short title. and Trade Disputes Ordinance.
2. In this Ordinance- “trade dispute” means any dispute between employers and workmen or between workmen and workmen, which is connected with the employment or non-employment or with the terms of employment, or with the conditions of labour of any person; "trade union" means any combination whether temporary or permanent, the principal purposes of which are under its constitution the regulation of the relations between workmen and masters, or between workmen and workmen, or between masters and masters whether such combination would or would not if this Ordinance had not been enacted have been deemed to have been an unlawful combination by reason of some one or more of its purposes being in restraint of trade: Provided that nothing in this Ordinance- (a) shall affect-
(i) any agreement between partners as to their own business;
(ii) any agreement between an employer and those employed by him as to such employment;
(iii) any agreement in consideration of the sale of the goodwill of a business or of instruction in any profession, trade or handicraft; or
(b) shall preclude any trade union from providing
benefits for its members;
"registered" means registered under this Ordinance; "Registrar" means the Registrar of Trade Unions;
"workmen" means all persons employed in trade or indus- try, whether or not in the employment of the employer with whom a trade dispute arises.
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Interpretation.
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