SS. 13, 14. 15.

Rules of registered trade unions.

Registered office of trade unions.

registrar under this Act, and respecting the fees, if any, to be paid on registry, not exceeding the fees specified in the second schedule to this Act, and generally for carrying this Act into effect.

"The registrar under this Act." See sect. 17. "Withdrawn or cancelled." There is nothing in this Act to authorise withdrawal or cancellation; but see sect. 8 of the Act of 1876, p. 105.

'Regulations." See Appendix B., p. 199.

14. With respect to the rules of a trade union registered under this Act, the following provisions shall have effect:

(1.) The rules of every such trade union shall contain provisions in respect of the several matters mentioned in the first schedule to this Act:

(2.) A copy of the rules shall be delivered by the trade union to every person on demand on payment of a sum not exceeding one shilling. 15. Every trade union registered under this Act shall have a registered office to which all communications and notices may be addressed; if any trade union under this Act is in operation for seven days without having such an office, such trade union and every officer thereof shall each incur a penalty not exceeding five pounds for every day during which it is so in operation.

Notice of the situation of such registered office, and of any change therein, shall be given to the

registrar and recorded by him; until such notice is $s. 15, 16. given the trade union shall not be deemed to have complied with the provisions of this Act.

returns to

as registrar

16. A general statement of the receipts, funds, Annual effects, and expenditure of every trade union be prepared registered under this Act shall be transmitted to may direct. the registrar before the first day of June in every year, and shall show fully the assets and liabilities at the date, and the receipts and expenditure during the year preceding the date to which it is made out, of the trade union; and shall show separately the expenditure in respect of the several objects of the trade union, and shall be prepared and made out up to such date, in such form, and shall comprise such particulars, as the registrar may from time to time require; and every member of, and depositor in, any such trade union shall be entitled to receive, on application to the treasurer or secretary of that trade union, a copy of such general statement, without making any payment for the same.

Together with such general statement there shall be sent to the registrar a copy of all alterations of rules and new rules and changes of officers made by the trade union during the year preceding the date up to which the general statement is made out, and a copy of the rules of the trade union as they exist at that date.

Every trade union which fails to comply with or acts in contravention of this section, and also

18.

Ss. 16, 17, every officer of the trade union so failing, shall each be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds for each offence.

Registrars.

Circulating false copies

a misde

meanor.

Every person who wilfully makes or orders to be made any false entry in or any omission from any such general statement, or in or from the return of such copies of rules or alterations of rules, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds for each offence.

17. The registrars of the friendly societies in England, Scotland, and Ireland shall be the registrars under this Act.

The registrar shall lay before Parliament annual reports with respect to the matters transacted by such registrars in pursuance of this Act.

These offices were instituted in 1846 (by 9-10 V. 27); the office from which they sprang seems to date from 1829 (10 Geo. IV. 56). See 59-60 V. 25, 1.

18. If any person with intent to mislead or of rules, &c. defraud gives to any member of a trade union registered under this Act, or to any person intending or applying to become a member of such trade union, a copy of any rules or of any alterations or amendments of the same other than those respectively which exist for the time being on the pretence that the same are the existing rules of such trade union, or that there are no other rules of such trade union, or if any person with the intent aforesaid gives a copy of any rules to

any person on the pretence that such rules are the Ss. 18, 19. rules of a trade union registered under this Act which is not so registered, every person so offending shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.

"Of a misdemeanor." See sect. 23, p. 98. Punishment might be by fine or imprisonment without hard labour, or both, or by being put under recognizances. See Stephen, Digest of Criminal Law, Art. 23.

Legal Proceedings.

proceedings

19. In England and Ireland all offences and Summary penalties under this Act may be prosecuted and for offences recovered in manner directed by the Summary &c. Jurisdiction Acts.

In England and Ireland summary orders under this Act may be made and enforced on complaint before a court of summary jurisdiction in manner provided by the Summary Jurisdiction Acts.

Provided as follows:

1. The "Court of Summary Jurisdiction," when hearing and determining an information or complaint, shall be constituted in some one of the following manners; that is to say,

(A.) In England,

(1.) In any place within the jurisdiction of a
metropolitan police magistrate or other
stipendiary magistrate, of such magistrate
or his substitute:

penalties,

S. 19.

(2.) In the city of London, of the Lord Mayor or any alderman of the said city:

(3.) In any other place, of two or more justices of the peace sitting in petty sessions.

(B.) In Ireland,

(1.) In the police district of Dublin metropolis, of a divisional justice:

(2.) In any other place, of a resident magistrate.

In Scotland all offences and penalties under this Act shall be prosecuted and recovered by the procurator fiscal of the county in the Sheriff Court under the provisions of the Summary Procedure Act, 1864.

In Scotland summary orders under this Act may be made and enforced on complaint in the Sheriff Court.

All the jurisdictions, powers, and authorities necessary for giving effect to these provisions relating to Scotland are hereby conferred on the sheriffs and their substitutes.

Provided that in England, Scotland, and Ireland2. The description of any offence under this Act in the words of such Act shall be sufficient in law.

3. Any exception, exemption, proviso, excuse, or qualification, whether it does or not accompany the description of the offence in this Act, may be proved by the defendant, but need not be specified or negatived in the information, and if so specified