Trade Unions Act 1940 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 4 · Rights and Liabilities of Trade Unions
26. Proceedings by and against trade union
Feedback & supportLast amended by an amending law of 2021.
A registered trade union may sue and be sued and be prosecuted under its registered name.
registered trade union
“registered trade union” means a trade union registered under this Act;
An unregistered trade union may be sued and prosecuted under the name by which it has been operating or is generally known.
trade union
“trade union” means any association or combination of workmen or employers, whether temporary or permanent, whose principal object is to regulate relations between workmen and employers for all or any of the following purposes:(a)to promote good industrial relations between workmen and employers;(b)to improve the working conditions of workmen or enhance their economic and social status;(c)to achieve the raising of productivity for the benefit of workmen, employers and the economy of Singapore,and includes any federation;
A trade union whose registration has been cancelled or withdrawn may be sued and prosecuted under the name by which it was registered.
An enforcement order for any money recovered from a trade union in civil proceedings may issue against any property belonging to or held in trust for the trade union other than the benevolent fund of a registered trade union.
Any fine ordered to be paid by a trade union may be recovered by distress and sale of any movable property belonging to or held in trust for the trade union in accordance with the provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code 2010.
In any civil or criminal proceedings in which a registered trade union is a party such trade union may appear in such proceedings by any one of its officers or by an advocate and solicitor.