Trade Unions Act · 2023 Revised Edition
12. Change of name
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
Any registered trade union may, with the consent of not less than two-thirds of the total number of its members and subject to the provisions of subsection (2) and of section 14, change its name.
A change in the name of a registered trade union shall not affect any rights or obligations of that trade union or render defective any legal proceeding by or against the trade union, and legal proceeding which might have been continued or commenced by or against it under its former name may be continued or commenced by or against it under its new name.
trade union
“trade union” means any combination, whether temporary or permanent, the principal purposes of which are under its constitution the regulation of the relations between workers and employers, or between workers and workers, or between employers and employers, whether such combination would or would not, if this Act had not been enacted, have been deemed to have been an unlawful combination by reason of some one or more of its purposes being in restraint of trade;
Terms defined in s 2
trade union
Defined · s 2“trade union” means any combination, whether temporary or permanent, the principal purposes of which are under its constitution the regulation of the relations between workers and employers, or between workers and workers, or between employers and employers, whether such combination would or would not, if this Act had not been enacted, have been deemed to have been an unlawful combination by reason of some one or more of its purposes being in restraint of trade;