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Unit 10: Trade Unions Act, 1926

2. The registered trade unions (workers and employers) are required to submit annual Notes
statutory returns to the Registrar regarding their membership, general funds, sources
of income and items of expenditure and details of their assets and liabilities, which in
turn submits a consolidated return of their state in the prescribed proformae to Labour
Bureau, Ministry of Labour and Employment. The Labour Bureau on receiving the annual
returns from different States/Union Territories consolidates the all India statistics and
disseminates them through its publication entitled the ‘Trade Unions in India’ and its other
regular publications.

3. The general funds of a registered trade union shall not be spent on any other objects than
those specified in the Act. Also, a registered trade union may constitute a separate fund,
from contributions separately levied for or made to that fund, for the promotion of the civic
and political interest of its members.

Did u know? No member shall be compelled to contribute to such fund and a member who
does not contribute to the said fund shall not be excluded from any benefits of the trade
union, or placed in any respect either directly or indirectly under any disability or at any
disadvantage as compared with other members of the union by reason of his contribution
to the said fund.
4. No office-bearer or member of a registered trade union shall be liable to punishment under
the Indian Penal Code in respect of any agreement made between the members for the
purpose of furthering any such object of the trade union as specified in the Act, unless the
agreement is an agreement to commit an offence.
5. No suit or other legal proceeding shall be maintainable in any civil court against any
registered trade union or any office-bearer or member thereof in respect of any act done in
contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute to which a member of the trade union is a
party on the ground only that such an act induces some other person to break a contract of
employment, or that it is in interference with the trade, business or employment of some
other person or with the right of some other person to dispose of his capital of his labour as
he wills.
6. The account books of a registered trade union and the list of members thereof shall be open
to inspection by an office-bearer or member of the trade union at such times as may be
provided for in the rules of trade union.
7. A person shall be disqualified for being chosen as, and for being a member of, the executive
or any other office-bearer or registered trade union if- (i) he has not attained the age of
eighteen years; (ii) he has been convicted by a court in India of any offence involving moral
turpitude and sentenced to imprisonment, unless a period of five years has elapsed since
his release.
8. Every office-bearer or other person bound by the rules of the trade union shall be punishable
with the payment of fine, if:-
™ z Default is made on the part of any registered trade union in giving any notice or
sending any statement or other document as required by or under any provision of
this Act; or
™ z Any person wilfully makes, or causes to be made, any false entry in, or any omission
from, the general statement or in or from any copy of rules or of alterations of rules
sent to the Registrar; or

™ z Any person who, 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 such trade
union any document purporting to be a copy of the rules of the trade union or of any

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