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Section 37

Registered office

of Trade Unions Act 1959

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Section 37

(1)

Every registered trade union shall have a registered office situated in Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah or Sarawak, as the case may be, to which all communications and notices may be addressed.

(2)

Notice of the situation of such registered office, and of any change therein, shall be given to the Director General at least fourteen days prior to such change and shall be registered by him, and the trade union shall not be deemed to have complied with this Act until such notice has been given.

(3)

Every trade union which—

(a)

operates without having a registered office, or without giving notice of the situation of its registered office as hereinbefore required; or

(b)

operates at any place to which its registered office may have been removed, without having given notice of the change in the situation thereof to the Director General, and every officer of any such union shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty ringgit for every day during which such union is so in operation.