Trade Unions Act · 2023 Revised Edition
22. Application of funds
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
The funds of a registered trade union may, subject to any limitation contained in the rules thereof and to the provisions of this Act, be expended only for the following objects —
the payment of salaries, allowances and expenses to officers of the trade union;
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“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;
the payment of expenses of the administration of the trade union, including audit of the accounts of the funds of the trade union;
the prosecution or defence of any legal proceedings to which the trade union or any member thereof is a party, when such prosecution or defence is undertaken for the purposes of securing or protecting any rights of the trade union or any rights arising out of the relations of any member with his employer or with a person whom the member employs;
the conduct of trade disputes on behalf of the trade union or any member thereof;
compensation of members for loss arising out of trade disputes;
allowances to members or their dependants on account of death, old age, sickness, accidents or unemployment of such members;
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expenditure on trade union, education and training; and
any other object which, by notification published in the
Gazette the Minister may declare to be an object for which such funds may be expended.
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;