Interpretation

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, “Registrar” means the Registrar General; “regulations” means regulations made under this Act; “rules” means rules made by a trade union as authorised by this Act; “trade dispute” means any dispute or difference between employers and workmen or between workmen and workmen which is connected with the employment or non-employment or the terms of employment or with the conditions of labour of any person; “trade union” means any combination, whether temporary or permanent, the principal purposes of which are under its constitution the regulation of the relations between workmen and masters or between workmen and workmen, or between masters and masters, whether such combination would or would not, if this Act had not been enacted, have been deemed 6 to have been an unlawful combination by reason of some one or more of its purposes being in restraint of trade, Provided that nothing in this Act, (a) shall affect, (i) any agreement between partners as to their own business; (ii) any agreement between an employer and those employed by him as to such employment; (iii) any agreement in consideration of the sale of the goodwill of a business or of instruction in any profession, trade or handicraft; (b) shall preclude any trade union from providing benefits for its members; “workmen” means all persons employed in trade or industry whether or not in the employment of the employer with whom a trade dispute arises.