Trade Unions Act · 2023 Revised Edition
13. Amalgamation
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
Any two or more registered trade unions may become amalgamated together as one trade union with or without dissolution 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 consent in writing either by ballot or otherwise and are recorded in favour of the proposal; and provided no amalgamation shall prejudice any right of any such trade union or any right of a creditor of any such trade union.
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;