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Trade Unions and Trade Disputes.

(a) that the provisions of this section shall not apply to any registered trade union or class of registered trade unions specified in the order, or

(b) may grant exemption from the provisions of this section in respect of such officers or such propor- tion of the officers of any registered trade union or class of registered trade unions as may be specified in the order.

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outside the

14. (1) Except with the consent of the Governor in Affiliation Council no registered trade union shall be affiliated or con- Colony. nected 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 organization which is established outside the Colony.

or other

(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the consent of the Governor in Council to be so affiliated or connected, or from which any such consent has been withdrawn, shall be deemed to be an unlawful society within the meaning and for all the pur- poses of the Societies Ordinance.

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name,

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

tion.

16. (1) Any two or more registered trade unions which Amalgama- are within the same trade or industry may become amal- gamated together as one trade union with or without dis- solution or division of the funds 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 cent of the votes recorded are in favour of the proposal: Provided further that the consent of the Governor in Council must first be obtained to any amalgamation in which one or more of the trade unions proposing to amal- gamate is affiliated or connected with a trade union or other organization under subsection (1) of section 14.

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