Provisions contained in the rules of a Trade Union :
A Trade Union shall not be entitled to registration under the Act, unless the executive thereof is constituted in accordance with the provisions of the Act, and the rules thereof provide for the following matters, namely:—
– the name of the Trade Union;
– the whole of the objects for which the Trade Union has been established;
– the whole of the purposes for which the general funds of the Trade Union shall be applicable, all of which purposes shall be purposes to which such funds are lawfully applicable under this Act;
– the maintenance of a list of the members of the Trade Union and adequate facilities for the inspection thereof by the office-bearers and members of Trade Union;
– the admission of ordinary members who shall be persons actually engaged or employed in an industry with which the Trade Union is connected, and also the admission of the number of honorary or temporary members as office-bearers required under section 22 to form the executive of the Trade Union;
– the payment of a minimum subscription by members of the Trade Union
– the conditions under which any member shall be entitled to any benefit assured by the rules and under which any fine or forfeiture may be imposed on the members;
– the manner in which the rules shall be amended, varied or rescinded;
– the manner in which the members of the executive and the other office-bearers of the Trade Union shall be elected and removed;
– the duration of period being not more than three years, for which the members of the executive and other office-bearers of the Trade Union shall be elected;
– the safe custody of the funds of the Trade Union, an annual audit, in such manner as may be prescribed, of the accounts thereof, and adequate facilities for the inspection of the account books by the officebearers and members of the Trade Union; and
– the manner in which the Trade Union may be dissolved