Trade Unions Act 1940 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 5 · Constitution
28. Membership of minors and Government employees
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A person above the age of 16 years may be a member of a registered trade union, unless provision is made in the rules thereof to the contrary, and may, subject to the rules of the trade union and subsection (2), enjoy all the rights of a member and execute all instruments and give all acquittances necessary to be executed or given under the rules.
registered trade union
“registered trade union” means a trade union registered under this Act;
In relation to a combined federation, subsection (1) does not affect any requirement under the Platform Workers Act 2024 relating to the minimum age of any member of a registered platform work association which is a constituent of the combined federation.
A member of a registered trade union who is under the age of 21 years, but above the age of 18 years, shall not be a member of the executive or a trustee of the trade union unless he has obtained the written approval of the Minister therefor.
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;
No Government employee shall join or be a member of any trade union or shall be accepted as a member by any trade union.
The President may, by notification in the Gazette, exempt from subsection (3) either wholly or subject to such conditions as are in such notification specified, any Government employees or any classes, categories or descriptions of Government employees.