Trades Unions Act 1889
22Annual returns
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22 Annual returns
[Section 22 Amended by 25 Geo. V No. 78 ][Section 22 Subsection (4) amended by No. 43 of 1991, s. 5 and Sched. 1 ][Section 22 Subsection (5) amended by No. 43 of 1991, s. 5 and Sched. 1 ]
(1) *[Section 22 Subsection (1) amended by No. 16 of 1985, s. 6 and Sched. 1 ]*A general statement of the receipts, funds, effects, and expenditure of every trade union registered under this Act shall be transmitted to the Commissioner before the first day of February in every year, and shall show fully the assets and liabilities at the date and the receipts and expenditure during the year ending on the thirty-first day of December then last past, 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 Commissioner may require.
(2) 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.
(3) *[Section 22 Subsection (3) amended by No. 16 of 1985, s. 6 and Sched. 1 ]*In every year before the first day of February a statement of the changes of officers and a copy of all alterations of rules and new rules made by every trade union during the year ending on the thirty-first day of December then last past, and a copy of the rules of every trade union as they exist at that date, shall be transmitted to the Commissioner.
(4) *[Section 22 Subsection (4) amended by No. 55 of 1965, s. 5 ]*Every trade union which fails to comply with, or acts in contravention of this section, and also every officer of the trade union so failing, shall each be liable to a fine not exceeding 1 penalty unit.
(5) *[Section 22 Subsection (5) amended by No. 55 of 1965, s. 5 ]*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 fine not exceeding 10 penalty units.