Rules.
First Schedule.
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in a trade or occupation with which the trade union is directly concerned; and
(b) any person who has lawfully been a member of a registered
trade union may, upon his retirement on account of age or ill-health from the trade or occupation in which he was habitually engaged or employed and by virtue of which he was a member of the trade union, remain a member thereof, but shall not be a voting member,
(2) Save with the consent in writing of the Registrar, no person shall, at the same time, be an officer of more than one registered trade union:
Provided that any person, other than a person who is an officer of a trade union with the consent of the Registrar under paragraph (a) of subsection (1), may, at the same time and without the consent of the Registrar, be an officer of a registered trade union and of a registered trade union federation of which such trade union is a member.
(3) Save with the consent of the Governor in Council no person who has been convicted of any crime involving fraud, dishonesty. extortion or membership of a triad society shall be an officer of a registered trade union.
(4) A person under the age of sixteen years may be a member of a registered trade union, unless provision is made in the rules thereof to the contrary, but shall not be a voting member or a member of the executive of a registered trade union.
(5) A person under the age of twenty-one years, but of or over the age of sixteen years, may be a member of a registered trade union. unless provision is made in the rules thereof to the contrary, and may, subject to the rules of the trade union, enjoy all the rights of a member and execute all instruments and give all acquittances necessary to be executed or given under the rules, but shall not be a member of the executive of a registered trade union.
(6) Any person who is an officer of a registered trade union in contravention of this section shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of one thousand dollars and to imprisonment for six months.
18. (1) Every registered trade union shall have, and every trade union which is applying for registration shall make, rules that, in the opinion of the Registrar, provide adequately for each and all of the matters specified in the First Schedule.
(2) (a) Where application is being made for the registration of a trade union, the rules of the trade union shall be sent to the Registrar, in the manner prescribed by regulations, at the same time as the application for registration.
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(b) When the Registrar is satisfied that-
(i) such rules have been duly made;
(B) such rules make adequate provision for each and all of the matters specified in the First Schedule;
(iii) na such rule is inconsistent with any of the provisions of this Ordinance or the regulations or with any other such rule or with the principal objects of the trade union or is contradictory, imprecise or incomprehensible; and
(iv) where any such rule relates to the taking of decisions by secret ballot, every voting member of the trade union has an equal right and, so far as practicable, a reasonable opportunity of voting and that the secrecy of the ballot is ensured,
he shall register such rules.
(3) No alteration or amendment of or addition to any of the registered rules of a registered trade union shall be made the effect of which is that the rules no longer provide adequately for each and all of the matters specified in the First Schedule.
(4) Where any registered rule of a registered trade union has been altered or amended or any rule has been added to the registered rules thereof and where the registered rules of a registered trade union have been wholly rescinded or otherwise cancelled and replaced by new rules. the rule so amended or altered or the rule so added or the new rules, as the case may be, shall, within thirty days of the making thereof, be scat to the Registrar in the manner prescribed by regulations,
(5) When the Registrar is satisfied that-
(a) such alteration, amendment or addition has, or such new rules
have, been duly made; and
(b) in the case of an altered or amended rule or a rule which has
been so added-
() the effect of the alteration, amendment or addition is not such that the rules of the trade union no longer make adequate provision for each and all of the matters specified in the First Schedule:
(ii) the altered or amended rule or the rule so added is not inconsistent with any of the provisions of this Ordinance or the regulations or with any other rule of the trade union or with the principal objects of the trade union or contradictory, imprecise or incomprehensible:
(iii) where the altered or amended rule or the rule so added relates to the taking of decisions by secret ballot, every voting member of the trade union has an equal right and, so far as