Trade Unions Act · 2023 Revised Edition
31. Failure to submit returns
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
If default is made on the part of any registered trade union in doing any act, in giving any notice, or in sending any statement, return or other document as required by this Act or by the regulations made thereunder, every officer or other person bound by the rules of the trade union or under the provisions of this Act or the regulations made thereunder to do such act, or to give such notice, or to send such statement, return or document, or, if there is no such officer or person, every member of the committee of management of that registered trade union is severally guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine of $3,000.
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;