TNAG-0918-FCO40-1129-Human-rights-in-Hong-Kong-1977 — Page 99

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Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise, 1948 15 October, 1963.

(Article 3:

1.

All officers of a trade union are required" to be habitually engaged dr employed in the trade or occupation with which the trade union is concerned and no person may hold office in more than one trade union but these require- ments may be modified at the discretion of the public authority.

2. The funds of a trade union may be expended only for objects specified in national laws or approved by the public authority.

3.

Amalgamation of registered trade unions is abje to the consent of the public authority where either of the trade unions is a member of an organisation established outside the territory. 4. The public authority may in certain circum- stances intervene for the purpose of supervising the accounts of trade unions and ensuring the application of their rules.

Article 5:

5. The consent of the public authority is required for affiliation of trade unions with international organisations.

6. Federations of trade unions may be estab- lished only by registered trade unions engaged in the same trade or industry, and membership of federations of trade unions is restricted to registered trade unions engaged in the same trade or industry as the component trade unions comprising such trade union federations. Article 6:

8. The modifications on Article 3 relating to primary trade unions apply also to federations of trade unions, except that the consent of the public authority is required for a person to be at the same time an officer of a federation of which the union is a member only if he is not

/habitually

habitually engaged in a trade or occupation with which the union is directly concerned)