Actions by or against trustees

(1) The trustees of any trade union registered under this Act, or any other officer of such trade union authorised to do so by the rules thereof, are hereby empowered to bring or defend, or cause to be brought or defended, any action, suit, prosecution or complaint in any court of law or equity, touching or concerning the property, right or claim to property of the trade union, and may, in all cases concerning the real or personal property of such trade union, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any court of law or equity, in their proper names, without other description than the title of their office. (2) No such action, suit, prosecution or complaint shall be discontinued or shall abate by the death or removal from office of such persons or any of them, but it shall and may be proceeded in by their successor or successors as if such death, resignation or removal had not taken place. (3) Such successors shall pay or receive the like costs as if the action, suit, prosecution or complaint had been commenced in their names for the benefit of, or to be reimbursed from, the funds of such trade union, and the summons to be issued to such trustee or other officer may be served by leaving the same at the registered office of the union.