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Interpreta- tion,

2. In this Ordinance, save where the context otherwise requires-

"employee", in relation to a trade union or a branch of a trade union or a trade union federation, means a clerk or other person appointed by, and acting under the instructions of, the executive thereof and paid from the funds of the trade union or the branch of the trade union or the trade union federation, as the case may be:

"executive" means the body to which the management of the affairs of a trade union or a branch of a trade union or a trade union federa- Lion, as the case may be, is entrusted by the members and also means any person for the time being carrying out the functions of a president, chairman, vice-chairman, secretary or treasurer thereof;

"funds", in relation to a trade union or a branch of a trade union, oc a trade union federation, includes money, whether allocated to a welfare fund or not, and all other property or assets, whether real or personal, held, collected, received or controlled by or on behalf of the trade union of the branch of the trade union or the trade

union federation, as the case may be;

"injury", for the purposes of Part VII, includes injury to a person in respect of his business, occupation, employment or other source of income, and includes any actionable wrong;

“Intimidation", for the purposes of Part VII, means to cause in the mind of a person a reasonable apprehension of injury to himself or to any member of his family or to any of his dependants or of violence or damage to any person or properly:

"lock-out" means the closing of a place of employment, or the suspen- sion of work, or the refusal by an employer to continue to employ any number of persons employed by him in consequence of a dispute, done with a view to compelling those persons, or to aiding another employer in compelling persons employed by him, to accept terms or conditions of or affecting employment,

"officer", in relation to a trade union or a branch of a trade union or a trade union federation, includes any member of the executive thereof, but does not include an auditor;

"register" means the register of trade unions to be maintained by the

Registrar in accordance with section 4:

"registered" means registered under this Ordinance:

"registered office", in relation to a trade union or a branch of a trade union or a trade union federation, means the office, if any, which is registered under this Ordinance as the head office thereof;

“Registrar” means the Registrar of Trade Unions appointed under

section 3;

"strike" means the cessation of work by a body of persons employed acting in combination, or a concerted refusal, or a refusal under a commou understanding, of any number of persons employed, to continue to work for an employer in consequence of a dispute, done as a means of compelling their employer or the employer of any other person or body of persons, or any person or body of persons employed, to accept or not to accept terms or conditions of or affecting employment:

"strike benefit" means any financial or other benefit given by a trade upion to any member of the trade union in consideration of a strike or lock-out;

"trade dispule" means any dispute or difference between employers and workmen, or between workmen and workmen, connected with the employment or non-employment, or the terms of employment, or with the conditions of or affecting employment, of any person; "trade union" means any combination, whether temporary or permanent, the principal objects of which are under its constitution the regulating of relations between workmen and employers, or between workmen and workmen, or between employers and employers, whether such combination would or would not, if this Ordinance had not been enacted, have been deemed to bave been an unlawful combination by reason of some one or more of its purposes being in restraint of trade:

"trade union federation" means a trade union which is wholly an asso-

ciation or combination of other registered trade unions; "voting member" means any member of a registered trade union entitled to vote for any purposes under the rules of the trade union;

"welfare fund" means trade union funds allocated or set apart for pay- ment to members or the families of members of the trade union of any assurance or benefit, other than strike benefit, or for the