Police Association

(1) For the purpose of enabling the members of the Department to consider and bring to the notice of the Commissioner and the Government all the matters affecting their welfare and efficiency, other than questions of discipline and promotion affecting individuals, there may be established, in accordance with such rules as the Commissioner may, with the approval of the Public Services Commission, make, an organisation to be called the Police Association, which shall be conducted as provided in those rules. (2) The Police Association shall be entirely independent of and un- associated with anybody or person outside the police service. (3) Subject to sub-sections (1) and (2), it shall not be lawful for a member of the Department to become a member of any trade union, or any association having for its objects, or one of its objects, to control or influence the pay, pensions, or conditions of service of the Police Department, and any member of the Department who contravenes this provision shall be disqualified from continuing to be a member of the Department, and, if any member of the Department continues to act as such after becoming so disqualified, he shall forfeit all pension rights and be disqualified from being thereafter employed in the Department, but where a man was a member of a trade union before becoming a constable, he may, with the consent of the Commissioner, continue to be a member of that union during the time of his service in the Department. (4) If any question arises whether anybody is a trade union or an association to which sub-section (3) applies, it shall be determined by a magistrate. Police Act 33