Trade Unions Act 1940 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 6 · Property
46. Purchase or lease of land or buildings
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Subject to subsection (2) and to any provision in its rules, a registered trade union may —
registered trade union
“registered trade union” means a trade union registered under this Act;
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
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.
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 —
its members; or
where the trade union is a federation, its constituent trade unions or, in the case of a combined federation, its constituent trade unions and constituent platform work associations.