Appointment of Registrar,
Register of trade ualons.
Trade unions to be
registered,
etc.
provision for such members or such families of educational, recreational or medical facilities;
“workman" means any person who has entered into or works under a contract with an employer, whether the contract be by way of manual labour, clerical work or otherwise, express or implied, oral or in writing and whether it be a contract of service or apprentice- ship or a contract personally to execute any work or labour.
PART II.
Appointments.
3. The Governor shall appoint such person as be may think fit to be Registrar of Trade Unions and may appoint a deputy registrar, assistant registrars and such other officers as may from time to time appear to him necessary for carrying out the purposes of this Ordinance.
PART III.
Registration.
4. (1) The Registrar shall keep a register in which shall be recorded such particulars relating to trade unions and trade union federations as may be prescribed by regulations.
(2) A copy of an entry in the register certified under the hand of the Registrar shall, until the contrary is shown, be received in evidence as proof of the facts specified therein as at the date of such certified copy.
5. (1) Every trade union shall be registered under this Ordinance. (2) An application for the registration of a trade union shall be made to the Registrar in the prescribed form within thirty days of the establishment thereof.
(3) Every such application shall be signed by not less than seven members of the trade union, any of whom may be officers thereof.
(4) Upon receipt of any such application in the prescribed form. the Registrar shall issue to the trade union a certificate in the prescribed form acknowledging receipt of such application, and every such certificate or a copy thereof certified under the hand of the Registrar shall, until the contrary is proved, be received in cvidence as proof of the facts specified therein.
(5) Any person who is an officer, or who acts as an officer, or who takes any part in the management or administration, of a trade union that is not registered under this Ordinance shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine of one thousand dollars and to imprisonment for six months:
Provided that this subsection shall not apply to any person who is an officer, or who acts as an officer, or who takes any part in the management or administration, of any such trade union so long as—
(a) an application for the registration of the trade union has been made in accordance with this section and the Registrar has not refused to register such trade union; and
(b) the only acts performed by such person, and the only acts performed by or on behalf of the trade union, are acts for the purposes of, or in connexion with, its establishment and its registration under this Ordinance.
6.
(1) Whenever he has registered a trade union, the Registrar Registration. shall issue to the trade union a certificate of registration in the prescribed form, and such certificate, or a copy thereof certified under his hand shall, unless proved to have been cancelled or withdrawn, be conclusive evidence for all purposes that such trade union has been duly registered under this Ordinance:
Provided that if any of the purposes of such trade union be unlawful such registration shall be void.
(2) The Registrar may, before registering a trade union, direct that the applicants shall produce any documents or provide any such particulars concerning such trade union as he may require in order to satisfy himself that such trade union is entitled to registration under this Ordinance.
7.
(1) The Registrar may in his discretion refuse to register a Refusal of trade union if-
(a) any of the provisions of this Ordinance or the regulations have
not been complied with; or
(b) any of the purposes of such trade union is unlawful; or (c) the name onder which it is proposed to register the trade union is identical with that by which any other trade union, whether existing or having ceased to exist, has been registered, or so nearly resembles such name as to be likely to deceive the public of the members of such trade union or of any other existing trade union.
(2) Where the Registrar refuses to register a trade union, he shall forthwith serve upon the applicants for registration thereof a notice in writing to that effect and shall specify therein the ground for his refusal.
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