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TRADE UNIONS (AMENDMENT)

Ord. No. 47/88

A231

L.S.

HONG KONG

No. 47 OF 1988

I assent.

David WILSON,

Governor.

23 June 1988

An Ordinance to amend the Trade Unions Ordinance.

[24 June 1988]

Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent

of the Legislative Council thereof.

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Trade Unions (Amendment) Short title Ordinance 1988.

2.

Section 2 of the Trade Unions Ordinance is amended-

(a) by adding after the definition of "branch"-

"electoral fund" means a fund established under section

33A:"; and

(b) in the definition of "funds" by repealing "allocated to a" and

substituting "in an electoral or".

3.

Interpretation (Cap. 332)

Sections 16(c), 20(1), 28(1), 33(1)(h) and (j), 34, 45(1) and 48(3) "Hong Kong" are amended by repealing "the Colony" and substituting "Hong Kong".

substituted for "the Colony"

4. Section 33(1) is amended by repealing "welfare fund" and substi- Application of tuting "welfare and electoral funds".

5. The following are added after section 33—

"Electoral fund

33A. (1) If authorized by secret ballot of a majority of its voting members, a registered trade union may establish an electoral fund out of which may be paid-

funds

Sections added