Hong Kong Ordinances

TRADE UNIONS ORDINANCE - SECT 5

Trade unions to be registered, etc.

(1) Every trade union shall be registered under this Ordinance.

(2) An application for the registration of a trade union shall be made to the
Registrar in the prescribed form within 30 days of the establishment thereof.

(3) Every such application shall be signed by not less than 7 voting members
of the trade union, any of whom may be officers thereof. (Amended 15 of 1971
s.4)

(4) Upon receipt of any such application in the prescribed form, the Registrar
shall issue to the trade union a certificate in the prescribed form
acknowledging receipt of such application, and every such certificate or a
copy thereof certified under the hand of the Registrar shall, until the
contrary is proved, be received in evidence as proof of the facts specified
therein.

(5) Any person who is an officer, or who acts as an officer, or who takes any
part in the management or administration, of a trade union that is not
registered under this Ordinance shall be guilty of an offence and shall be
liable on summary conviction to a fine of $1000 and to imprisonment for 6
months: Provided that this subsection shall not apply to any person who is an
officer, or who acts as an officer, or who takes any part in the management or
administration, of any such trade union so long as-

   (a)  an application for the registration of the trade union has been made
        in accordance with this section and the Registrar has not refused to
        register such trade union; and

   (b)  the only acts performed by such person, and the only acts performed by
        or on behalf of the trade union, are acts for the purposes of, or in
        connection with, its establishment and its registration under this
        Ordinance.