Trade Unions Act · 2023 Revised Edition
17. Affiliation outside Brunei Darussalam
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
Except with the consent of the Minister, no registered trade union shall be affiliated or connected with any trade union or other organisation which is established outside Brunei Darussalam in such manner as to affect the freedom of action or independence of the trade union or so as to place the trade union which is established within Brunei Darussalam, or any of its members, in any way or in respect of any matter under the control of the trade union or other organisation which is established outside
Brunei Darussalam.
Every trade union so affiliated or connected which has not obtained the consent of the Minister to be so affiliated or connected, or from which any such consent has been withdrawn, is deemed to be an unlawful society within the meaning and for all the purposes of the Societies Act
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;
(Chapter 203).
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;