Trade Unions Act · 2023 Revised Edition
18. Membership of Government officers
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
No member of the Royal Brunei Police Force, the Royal Brunei
Armed Forces and no member of the Prison Service shall join or be a member of any trade union or shall be accepted as a member of any trade union.
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;
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Any person who contravenes subsection (1) or who knowingly is a party to such contravention is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine of $6,000.
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;