Trade Unions Act 1940 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 5 · Constitution
37. Registered office
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registered trade union
“registered trade union” means a trade union registered under this Act;
Notice of the situation of such registered office, and of any change therein, shall be given to the Registrar and shall be registered by him, and the trade union shall not be deemed to have complied with the provisions of this Act until such notice has been given.
registered office
“registered office” means the office of a trade union which is registered under this Act as the head office of the trade union;
Every trade union which —
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;
operates without having a registered office, or without giving notice of the situation of its registered office as required under this section; or
operates at any place to which its registered office may have been removed, without having given notice of the change in the situation thereof to the Registrar,shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction by a District Court or Magistrate’s Court to a fine not exceeding $50 for every day during which it is so in operation.
Every officer of any trade union referred to in subsection (3) shall be liable to be convicted and fined a like amount in respect of the same offence.
officer
“officer”, in relation to a trade union, includes any member of the executive thereof and any member of any committee, provision for which is made in the rules of the trade union, but does not include an auditor;