Legal status of trade unions and employers’ organisations, and protection of officers and members from legal process

(1) Every trade union or employers’ organisation registered under this Act shall be a body corporate having perpetual succession and a common seal and subject to the provisions of this Act, shall have the power to acquire, hold and dispose of movable and immovable property of whatever kind, to enter into contracts, to sue and be sued in its name and to do all lawful things necessary for the attainment of its objectives. (2) No officer, representative or member of a trade union or an employers’ organisation shall be personally liable for any act or omission of the trade union or employers’ organisation if the act or omission was done by such officer, representative or member in good faith in the course of furthering the objectives of the trade union or employers’ organisation. (3) Subsection (2) of this section, shall not be read and construed as exempting from liability any trade union or employers’ organisation, or any officer, representative or member thereof, from any contractual liability for goods, services and obligations incurred by the trade union or employers’ organisation in the course of its operations. etc.