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Membership of minors.

Officers of trade unico.

Affiliation outside the Colony.

Ordinance

No. 5 of 1920. Change of

name.

Amalgama- dion.

(2) Not less then two months' previous notice specifying briefly the grounds of the proposed cancellation, except where the trade union has ceased to exist in which case notice of cancellation may be given forthwith, shall be given by the Registrar to the trade union before such cancellation is offected.

(3) An appeal from the decision of the Registrar under this section shall lie to the Governor in Council subject to the sume conditions as are from time to time prescribed for an appeal against the refnan of the Registrar to register a trade union. The decision of the Governor in Council shall he foal.

12. A person under the age of twenty-one, but above the age of sixteen, may be a member of a registered trade union, unless provision be 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 except as herein provided, 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.

13. (1) Every officer of a registered trade union shall be a person actually engaged or employed in an industry or occupation with which the trade union is connected.

(2) The Governor in Council may, by special or general order published in the Gazette, declare-

(a) that the provisions of this section shall not apply to any registered trade union or clues of registered trade anions specified in the order, or (b) may grant exemption from the provisions of this Baction in respect of such officers or such proportion of the officers of any registered trade union or class of registered trade unions as may be specified in the order.

14. (1) Except with the consent of the Governor in Council no registered trade union shall be affiliated or connected with any trade union or other organization which is established outside the Colony in such a manner as to place the trade union which is established within the Colony, or any of its members, in any way or in any matter under the control of the trade union or other organization which is established outside the Colony,

(2) Every trade union so affiliated or connected which has not obtained the consent of the Governor in Council to be so affiliated or connected, or from which any such consent has been withdrawn, shall be deemed to be an unlawful society within the meaning and for all the purposes of the Societies Ordinance, 1920.

15. Any registered trade union may, with the consent of not less than two-thirds of the total number of its members and subject to the provisions of section 16, change its name.

18. (1) Any two or more registered trade unions which are within the same trade or industry may become amalgamated together as one trade union with or without dissolution or division

of the fouds of such trade unions or either or any of them:

Provided that the votes of at least one-half of the members of each or every such trade union entitled to vote are recorded, and that at least sixty per centum of the votes recorded are in favour of the proposal;

Provided Further that the consent of the tinvernor in Council must first be obtained to any amalgamation in which one or more of the trade unions proposing to amalgamate is affiliated or connected with a trade union or other organization under sub- section (1) of section 14.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the expression trade or industry trade unious shall be deemed to be within the same trade or industry if the wages or conditions of employ- ment of their members are capable of dotermination in accordance with the conclusions of the same joint industrial council, trade board, conciliation board, or other similar body, or in accordance with agreements mole with the same group of employers or employees.

17. (1) Notice in writing shall be given to the Registrar of Notice of every change of name and of every amalgamation, signed, in the change of case of a change of wate, by the secretary and by seven members name or of of the registered trade union changing its name, and, in the case con.

smulgama- of an amalgamation, by the secretary and by seven members of sach and every registered trade union which is a party thereto.

(2) If the proposed nawe is identical with that by which any other existing trade union has been registered or in the opinion of the Registrar, so nearly rescribles such name as to he likely to deceive the public or the members of either trade union, the Registrar shall refuse to register the change of name.

(3) Save us is provided in sub-section (2), the Registrar shall, if he is satisfied that the provisions of this Ordinance in respect of change of usme have been complied with, register the change of name, and the change of name shall have effect from the date of auch registration.

(4) If the Registrar is satisfied that the provisions of this Ordinance in respect of amalgamation have been complied with and that the trade union formed thereby is entitled to registration under section 9, he shall register the trade union accordingly, and the amalgamation shall have effect from the date of such registra- tion.

(5) Any person aggrieved by the refusal of the Registrar to register either a change of the name of a registered trade union or the trade union formied by the amalgamation of any two or mora registered trade unious may appeal ngainat such refusal in manner provided by section 10.

18. (1) A change in the name of a registered trade muion Effect of shall not affect any rights or obligations of that trade union or change of render defective any legal proceeding by or against the trade mar union, and any legal proceeding which might have been continued tion, or commenced by or against it under its former name may be continued or commenced by or against it under its new name.

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