Notification
of officers. etc.
Change of name,
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22. (1) A notice giving the names (including any alias) of all officers and their titles shall be prominently exhibited in the registered office of every registered trade union and in every office of any branch of a registered trade union.
(2) Notice of every change of officers or of the title of any officer of a registered trade union shall, within fourteen days thereof, be sent by the trade union to the Registrar.
(3) The Registrar may require a registered trade union to furnish, in respect of any officer specified in any notice given under subsection (2), such particulars as he may consider necessary, and such trade union shall furnish such particulars within fourteen days of the date of such request
(4) A registered trade union that contravenes subsection (2) or fails to furnish, within the period specified therein, any particulars which the Registrar may have required under subsection (3) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine of two hundred dollars.
23. (1) A registered trade union may agree to change its name by the vote in secret ballot of not less than two-thirds of its voting members.
(2) Where a registered trade union has so agreed to change its name, application for the registration of the change of name shall be made to the Registrar within fourteen days thereof.
(3) J
(a) the proposed name is identical with that under which any other trade union, whether existing or not, is or has been registered or so nearly resembles such name as to be likely to deceive the public or the members of such trade union or of any other trade union; or
(b) the provisions of this Ordinance in respect of change of nams
have not been complied with,
the Registrar shall refuse to register the change of name.
(4) Save as provided in subsection (3), the Registrar shall register the change of name.
(5) Any person who considers that the Registrar was wrong in refusing to register a change of the name of any registered trade union in that, as the case may be-
(a) the proposed name was not such a name as is specified in
paragraph (4) of subsection (3);
(b) the provisions of this Ordinance in respect of change of name
had been complied with,
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may, within fourteen days after the refusal of the Registrar to register the change of name, appeal to the Full Court, and, if upon any such appeal the Full Court finds that the refusal of the Registrar to register the change of name was wrong as aforesaid, it may so declare and thereupon the Registrar shall register the change of name, but, save as hereinbefore provided, the appeal shall be dismissed.
(6) No change of name of a registered trade union shall- (a) take effect until the same has been registered under this
section;
(b) affect any right or obligation of the trade union or any member
thereof.
(7) Where, in respect of any registered trade union that bas changed its name, any proceeding or cause of action was pending or existed at the tune of the change of name, the same may be continued or enforced by or against the trade union as it might have been continued or enforced by or against the trade union if the change of name had not taken place.
24. Save with the consent of the Registrar, no registered trade Consent of unions shall amalgamate as one trade union.
25. (1) Where two or more registered trade unions desire to amalgamate as one trade union, an application shall be made to the Registrar for his consent to the amalgamation.
(2) Every application under subsection (1) shall be made in the prescribed form and shall be signed by the chairman and one other officer of each trade union and shall be accompanied by three copies of the proposed rules of the trade union to be formed by the intended amalgamation,
Registrar required to amalgama. dom at trade unions.
Application for consent
to amalga- trafic.
26. No application under section 25 for the consent of the Vore on Registrar to the amalgamation of any registered trade unions shall be application made unless, în the case of each trade union, a majority of the executive to amalga- thereof has voted in favour of the making of the application.
for consent
motion.
27. (1) The Registrar may refuse to give his consent to an Grounds for intended amalgamation of registered trade unions where-
refusal to consent to
(a) any of the provisions of this Ordinance in respect of the making amalgama-
of the application for bis consent have not been complied with; tion and
procedure (6) the proposed rules of the trade union to be formed by the io such
amalgamation will not make adequate provision for each and all of the matters specified in the First Schedule:
CASCS.
First Sebedule.