Trade Unions Act 1940 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 8 · Offences and Penalties
56. Supplying false information regarding trade unions
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with intent to deceive, gives to any member of a registered trade union or to any person intending or applying to become a member of that trade union any document purporting to be a copy of the rules of the trade union or of any alterations thereto which he knows, or has reason to believe, is not a correct copy of such rules or alterations as are for the time being in force; or
registered trade union
“registered trade union” means a trade union registered under this Act;
with the like intent mentioned in paragraph (a), gives a copy of any rules of an unregistered trade union to any person on the pretence that those rules are the rules of a registered trade union,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 $2,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months or to both.
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;