Hong Kong Ordinances

TRADE UNIONS ORDINANCE - SECT 53

Application to trade union federations

PART IX

TRADE UNION FEDERATIONS

(1) Save as hereinafter expressly provided, this Ordinance shall apply, in so
far as applicable, to a trade union federation as if the component
trade unions comprising such trade union federation were individual members of
a trade union: Provided that the Societies Ordinance ( Cap 151) shall not
apply to a trade  union federation so as to penalize any individual member of
a registered trade union merely by reason of his being a member of such
registered trade union.

(2) Save as otherwise provided, every notice, copy of rules or other document
required by this Ordinance to be signed, in the case of a trade union, by the
secretary or voting members thereof, or both, shall, in the case of a
trade union federation, be signed by the chairman and one other officer
thereof.