Trade Unions Act 1940 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 5 · Constitution
34. Amalgamation
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Any 2 or more registered trade unions may become amalgamated as one trade union if each of the trade unions has the requisite consent of —
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;
its members;
where the trade union is a federation, its constituent trade unions; or
where the trade union is a combined federation, its constituent trade unions and constituent platform work associations,to the amalgamation.
The amalgamation may be undertaken with or without dissolution or division of the funds of the trade unions or either or any of them.