Singapore legislation

Clause 14

Repeal and re-enactment of section 46

Section 46 of the principal Act is repealed and the following section substituted therefor:“Purchase or lease of land or buildings46.—

(1)

Subject to subsection (2) and to any provision in its rules, a registered trade union may —

(a)

purchase or take a lease of, for the purposes of the trade union and in the names of its trustees, any land or building; and

(b)

subject to any written or other law which may be applicable, sell, exchange, charge or lease any land or building purchased or leased by it.(2) A registered trade union shall not purchase or take a lease of any land, or building, situated outside Singapore without having first obtained the requisite consent of —

(a)

its members; or

(b)

where the trade union is a federation, its constituent trade unions.”.

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