CO129-504-7 Illegal Strikes and Lock-outs Ordinance- 1927 21-3-1927 - 26-11-1927 — Page 34

[17 GEO. 5.]

Trade Disputes and Trade Unions.

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of the Trade Union Act, 1913, shall be amended so as A.D. 1927. to conform to the requirements of this Act, and as so amended shall be approved by the Registrar of Friendly Societies (in this Act referred to as the Registrar") 5 within six months after the commencement of this Act or within such further time as the Registrar may in special circumstances allow, and if the rules of any trade union are not so amended and approved as aforesaid they shall be deemed not to comply with the require- 10 ments of the said section.

(4) If the Registrar is satisfied, and certifies, that rules for the purpose of complying with the provisions of the foregoing subsection have been approved by a majority of the members of a trade union voting for the 15 purpose or by a majority of delegates of such a trade union voting at a meeting called for the purpose, the Registrar may approve those rules and those rules shall thereupon have effect as rules of the union notwith- standing that the provisions of the rules of the union 20 as to the alteration of rules or the making of new rules

have not been complied with.

(5) Section sixteen of the Trade Union Act, 1871 (which provides for the transmission to the Registrar of annual returns by registered trade unions), shall apply 25 to every unregistered trade union so far as respects the receipts, funds, effects, expenditure, assets and liabilities of the political fund thereof.

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5. (1) Amongst the regulations as to the conditions Regulations of service in His Majesty's civil establishments there as to organi- 30 shall be included regulations prohibiting established sations of

civil servants from being members, delegates, or repre- lished civil sentatives of any organisation of which the primary servants object is to influence or affect the remuneration and may be conditions of employment of its members, unless the members. 35 organisation is an organisation of which the membership is confined to persons employed by or under the Crown and is an organisation which complies with such pro- visions as may be contained in the regulations for securing that it is in all respects independent of, and 40 not affiliated to any such organisation as aforesaid the membership of which is not confined to persons employed by or under the Crown or any federation comprising such organisations, that its objects do not include

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