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TRADE UNION ACT 1913 - SECT 5

Notice of objection to contribute toward political objects.

5.(1) A member of a trade union may at any time give notice, in the form set
out in the Schedule to this Act or in a form to the like effect, that he
objects to contribute to the political fund of the union, and, on the adoption
of a resolution of the union approving the furtherance of political objects as
an object of the union, notice shall be given to the members of the union
acquainting them that each member has a right to be exempt from contributing
to the political fund of the union, and that a form of exemption notice can be
obtained by or on behalf of a member either by application at or by post from
the head office or any branch office of the union or the office of the
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Any such notice to members of the union shall be given in accordance with
rules of the union approved for the purpose by the Registrar of Friendly
Societies, having regard in each case to the existing practice and to the
character of the union.

(2) On giving notice in accordance with this Act of his objection to
contribute, a member of the union shall be exempt, so long as his notice is
not withdrawn, from contributing to the political fund of the union as from
the first day of January next after the notice is given, or, in the case of a
notice given within one month after the notice given to members under this
section on the adoption of a resolution approving the futherance of political
objects, as from the date on which the member's notice is given.][

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