Hong Kong Ordinances

TRADE UNIONS ORDINANCE - SECT 44

Trade union contracts

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Nothing in this Ordinance shall enable any court to entertain any legal
proceeding instituted with the object of directly enforcing or recovering
damages for the breach of any of the following agreements, namely-

   (a)  any agreement between members of a trade union as such concerning the
        conditions on which any members for the time being of such trade union
        shall or shall not sell their goods, transact business, employ or be
        employed;

   (b)  any agreement for the payment by any person of any subscription or
        penalty to a trade union;

   (c)  any agreement for the application of the funds of a trade union-

        (i)    to provide benefits for members; or

        (ii)   to furnish contributions to any employer or employee not a
               member of such trade union, in consideration of such employer
               or employee acting in conformity with the rules or resolutions
               of such trade union; or (Amended 15 of 1971 s. 20; L.N. 307 of
               1998)

        (iii)  to discharge any fine imposed on any person by sentence of a
               court of justice; or

   (d)  any agreement made between one trade union and another; or

   (e)  any bond to secure the performance of any of the above mentioned
        agreements, but nothing in this section shall be deemed to constitute
        any of the above mentioned agreements unlawful.