CO129-626-3 Labour Department- report to Labour Commissioner 1-3-1951 - 30-6-1952 — Page 198

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Trade

unions not criminal.

Trade unions not unlawful.

Trade

union pro- hibited from carrying on

business

unless registered.

Registrar of Trade Unions.

Registration

of trade unions.

Compulsory registration.

3.

Trade Unions and Trade Disputes.

The purposes of any trade union shall not, by reason merely that they are in restraint of trade, be deemed to be unlawful so as to render any member of such trade union liable to criminal prosecution for conspiracy or other- wise.

4. The purposes of any trade union shall not, by reason merely that they are in restraint of trade, be unlaw- ful so as to render voidable any agreement or trust.

5. (1) No trade union or any member thereof shall perform any act in furtherance of the purposes for which it has been formed unless such trade union has first been registered.

(2) Any trade union or any officer or member thereof who contravenes the provisions of this section shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of five hundred dollars.

6. The Governor may appoint such person as he may think fit to be the Registrar of Trade Unions.

7.

Any seven or more members of a trade union may, by subscribing their names to the rules of the union and otherwise complying with the provisions of this Ordinance. with respect to registration, register such trade union : Provided that if any one of the purposes of such trade union be unlawful such registration shall be void.

8.

(1) Every trade union shall be registered or be dissolved within six months of the date-

(a) of its formation, or

(b) of any notification by the Registrar that he has refused under section IO to register the trade union,

whichever is the later date.

(2) Any trade union which is not registered or dis- solved within the period prescribed in the preceding sub- section and every officer thereof shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of one hundred dollars for every day it remains unregistered after the expiration of such period.

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