### Trade Union Registration Regulations 《職工會登記規例》

1. Citation
These regulations may be cited as the Trade Union Registration Regulations.

2. Contents of the register
(1) The following particulars regarding any trade union or trade union federation shall be recorded by or at the direction of the Registrar in the register—
(a) the name and the date of registration of the trade union or trade union federation and its rules;
(b) the address of the head office;
(c) the amalgamation of the trade union or trade union federation, as the case may be, with any other trade union or trade union federation;
(d) the dissolution of the trade union or trade union federation;
(e) the cancellation of the registration of the trade union or trade union federation; and
(f) any change in—
(i) the name;
(ii) the rules; or
(iii) the address of the registered office, of the trade union or trade union federation.
(2) Every entry in the register and any amendment thereto shall be signed or initialled by the Registrar or the Deputy Registrar of Trade Unions.

3. Inspection of register
The register may, on application in writing to the Registrar, be inspected, free of charge, at the Registry of Trade Unions during office hours, by any member of the public.

4. Inspection of accounts, etc. of registered trade unions
Any member of a registered trade union may, on application in writing to the Registrar, inspect free of charge, at the Registry of Trade Unions during office hours, any documents, being documents required by law to be filed with the Registrar, relating to such registered trade union or to any registered trade union federation to which such registered trade union is a party.

5. Provisions as to submission for registration of rules on application for registration of trade union
Where rules are sent to the Registrar for registration by a trade union or trade union federation that has applied for registration under the Ordinance—
(a) two copies of the rules shall be sent; and
(b) in the case of a trade union, both copies of the same shall be signed by each of the persons who has signed the application for registration of the trade union or, if, by reason of death or illness or any other good cause, any such person is unable or ineligible to sign such copies, by some other voting member of such trade union; or
(c) in the case of a trade union federation, both copies of the same shall be signed by the chairman and one other officer of each of the registered trade unions comprised therein.
(L.N. 44 of 1971)

### Trade Union Registration Regulations 《職工會登記規例》

6. Documents to be issued on registration of a trade union
Upon the registration of a trade union or a trade union federation, the Registrar shall issue to the trade union or the trade union federation, as the case may be, the following documents—
(a) a copy of the Ordinance and of these regulations;
(b) a certificate of registration; and
(c) a copy of the rules of the trade union or trade union federation certified by the Registrar as complying, in his opinion, with the provisions of section 18 of the Ordinance.

7. Use of name
No registered trade union or registered trade union federation shall display or otherwise in any manner make use of any name purporting to be the name of the trade union or of the federation except the name under which such trade union or such trade union federation is for the time being registered.

8. Application for registration of change of name to be accompanied by certificate of registration
Where, in accordance with section 23 of the Ordinance, application is made to the Registrar for the registration of a change of the name of any registered trade union or registered trade union federation, the certificate of registration issued in respect of such trade union or trade union federation shall be sent to the Registrar at the same time as such application is made.

9. Procedure on registration of change of name
Where, under section 23 of the Ordinance, the Registrar registers a change of the name of any registered trade union or registered trade union federation, he shall—
(a) amend, accordingly, the certificate of registration issued by him in respect of the trade union or trade union federation, and return such certificate to the trade union or trade union federation; or
(b) if he thinks fit, issue a new certificate of registration.

### Trade Union Registration Regulations 《職工會登記規例》

10. Provisions as to submission for registration of wholly new rules or altered, amended or added rules
(1) Where wholly new rules are sent to the Registrar for registration by a registered trade union—
(a) two copies of the rules shall be sent; (L.N. 44 of 1971)
(b) an application for the registration thereof shall be made in the prescribed form and shall be signed by the chairman and one other officer of such trade union; and
(c) both copies of such rules shall be signed by not less than 7 voting members of the trade union. (L.N. 44 of 1971; E.R. 3 of 2020)
(2) Where an alteration to or amendment of a registered rule, or an addition to the registered rules, of a registered trade union is sent to the Registrar for registration by a registered trade union—
(a) an application for the registration of the amended or altered rule or the rule so added shall be made in the prescribed form and shall be signed by the chairman and one other officer of the trade union; and
(b) there shall be sent to the Registrar at the same time as such application for registration—
(i) one copy of the registered rules marked so as to indicate the alteration, amendment or addition, as the case may be; and
(ii) one copy of the text of the amendment, alteration or addition, as the case may be, which shall be signed by not less than 7 voting members of the trade union. (E.R. 3 of 2020)

11. Procedure on registration of amalgamation of trade unions, etc.
Where, under section 6 of the Ordinance, the Registrar registers a trade union or trade union federation formed by the amalgamation of two or more trade unions or trade union federations, as the case may be, he shall issue—
(a) one certificate of registration in the name under which such trade unions or trade union federations are amalgamated; and
(b) a copy of the rules of the trade union or trade union federation certified by him as complying, in his opinion, with the provisions of section 18 of the Ordinance.

12. Loss, etc. of certificate
If the Registrar is satisfied that a certificate of registration has been lost, destroyed or defaced, he may issue, free of charge, a duplicate thereof.