Annual returns

(1) A general statement of the receipts, funds, effects and expenditure of every trade union registered under this Act shall be transmitted to the Registrar before 1st June in every year, and shall show fully the assets and liabilities at the date, and the receipts and expenditure during the year preceding the date, to which it is made out, of the trade union. (2) That statement shall also show separately the expenditure in respect of the several objects of the union, and be prepared and made out up to such date, in such form and with such particulars, as the Registrar may from time to time require. (3) Every member of, and depositor in, any such trade union shall be entitled to receive, on application to the treasurer or secretary of that trade union, a copy of such general statement without making any payment for it. (4) Together with such general statement, there shall be sent to the Registrar a copy of all alterations of rules and new rules and changes of officers made by the trade union during the year preceding the date to which the general statement is made out, and a copy of the rules of the trade union as they exist at that date. (5) Every trade union which fails to comply with or acts in contravention of this section, and also every officer of the union so failing, commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding twenty- five dollars for each offence. (6) Every person who wilfully makes, or orders to be made, any false entry in, or any omission from, any general statement or in or from the return of such copies of rules or alterations of rules commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction for each offence to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars. 21