A person who collects or receives subscriptions, entrance fees, donations or other contributions for or on behalf of a trade union or an employers’ organisation shall issue to the person paying him an appropriate receipt from a book of printed receipt forms, the forms being each in duplicate and numbered serially.

An employer shall not be required to issue a receipt to his employee for any money collected under paragraph (1) on behalf of a trade union or employers’ organisation in respect of check-off dues.

A collector shall, when issuing a receipt, ensure that the particulars entered on the receipt are legibly duplicated on the printed duplicate, and shall preserve in the book the printed duplicate of every receipt issued.

A collector shall hand over or remit to the treasurer of the trade union or employers’ organisation or of his branch, at intervals of not more than fifteen days, all money collected on behalf of the trade union or employers’ organisation, together with all receipt books in the collector’s possession relating to such money.

A collector shall issue a receipt from the receipt books issued to him in proper sequence in accordance with their serial numbering.

A collector who collects moneys for or on behalf of a trade union or employers’ organisation who contravenes this regulation commits an offence.

The treasurer of a trade union or employers’ organisation or branch thereof shall, when issuing a receipt, ensure that the particulars entered on the receipt form are legibly duplicated by carbon copy on the printed duplicate thereof, and shall preserve in the book the printed duplicate of every receipt issued.

No treasurer of a trade union or employers’ organisation or branch shall issue a receipt from a fresh receipt book unless all receipts from receipts books already in use are completed.

A treasurer of a trade union or employers’ organisation or branch thereof shall issue receipts and receipt books in proper sequence in accordance with their serial numbering.

A treasurer of a trade union or employers’ organisation or branch thereof shall ensure that a collector accounts for all receipt books issued to the collector when the collector accounts for the cash collected by him.

When the necessary information has been obtained from the collector’s receipt book or books, the treasurer may return to the collector for further use such receipt book or books as have not been completed.

A treasurer of a trade union or employers’ organisation or ranch thereof who contravenes this regulation commits an offence.

The treasurer of a trade union or employers’ organisation shall be responsible for the issuance of all receipt books, whether to treasurers of branches or to collectors, and the treasurer of a branch of a trade union or employers’ organisation shall be responsible for the issuance to collectors of all receipt books which received from the treasurer of the trade union or employers’ organisation.

The treasurer of a trade union or employers’ organisation branch thereof, shall keep a record of all receipt books which he receives and issues, and the record shall show the serial numbers of all receipt books received, the dates on which he received the receipt books, the name of the person to whom each receipt book is issued, the date of issuance of the receipt book and the date when the duplicates of the receipt books were returned.

Where a treasurer issues a receipt book to any person other than the treasurer of a branch, he shall not issue any book further book to such person until the duplicate of the first book has been returned.

No treasurer of a branch of a trade union or employers’ organisation or branch thereof shall issue to any person a receipt book other than a receipt book received from the treasurer of the trade union, or employers’ organisation and no treasurer of a branch or a collector shall issue to any person a receipt from a receipt book not issued by the treasurer of the union to him.

A treasurer of a trade union or employers’ organisation or branch thereof who contravenes this regulation commits an offence.

No person shall make a payment out of the funds of a trade union or on employers’ organisation for an object not authorised by the Act or rules of the trade union ore employers’ organisation concerned, and no person shall authorize such payments.

Where a trade union, employers’ organisation or branch thereof employs any person, or engages any person to collect money for it on commission, the treasurer of the trade union, employers’ organisation or branch thereof, shall maintain a wages book in Form S set out in the Schedule, using a separate page for each person so employed or so engaged.

A treasurer of a trade union, an employers’ organization or branch thereof who contravenes paragraph (1) commits an offence.

The treasurer of a trade union or employers’ organization shall keep a cash book in Form T set out in the Schedule, and shall record therein all money received and all money paid by the trade union or employers’ organization including receipts from the payments to branches, in the appropriate columns according to the nature of the receipts and payments and according to whether out of a bank account or other deposit or savings account of the trade union or employers’ organization.

The treasurer shall balance the cash book at the end of every month and shall certify in the cash book that the balances agree with the actual cash in hand and cash at the bank and the treasurer shall sign the certificate.

A treasurer shall keep in respect of every branch of the trade union or an employers’ organization a branch analysis cash book in Form U set out in the Schedule, and shall record therein an analysis of all money received and all money paid by every branch, according to the copies of the cash book sheets received from branch treasures under regulation 9, and the receipts and payments shall be entered in the appropriate columns as prescribed by paragraph (1).

A treasurer of a trade union or employers’ organization who contravenes this regulation commits an offence.

The treasurer of every branch of a trade union or employers’ organization shall keep a cash book in Form V set out in the Schedule with the pages thereof numbered serially, and shall record therein all money received and all money paid by the branch, including receipts from and payments to the trade union headquarters, in the appropriate columns as prescribed by paragraph (1) of regulation 8.

The treasurer shall balance the cash book at the end of every month and shall certify in the cash book that the balances agree with the actual cash in hand and cash at the bank, and the treasurer shall sign such certificate and shall forward to the treasurer of the trade union within seven days after the end of the month a copy of every page of the cash book which relates to that month and particulars of the balances.

A treasurer of a branch of a trade union or employers’ organization who contravenes these regulations commits an offence.

The treasurer of a trade union or employers’ organization or branch thereof shall maintain, in the trade union or employers’ organisation accounts, separate records of any contributions or donations which it collects or receives for a specific purpose, and subject to any resolutions of the members of the trade union or employers’ organisation authorizing the use of such funds and any other purpose, the treasurer shall not disburse any such funds other than for the specific purpose for which they were collected or donated.

A treasurer of a trade union or employers’ organization or branch thereof who contravenes this regulation commits an offence.

The treasurer of a trade union or employers’ organization or branch thereof shall preserve all the books of account and documents kept or made under these Regulations, and all books of duplicate receipts and other supporting documents, for a period of at least three years after the end of the financial year of a trade union or employers’ organisation to which they relate, and shall take all such precautions necessary for their safe custody.

A treasurer of a trade union or employers’ organisation or a branch thereof who contravenes this regulation commits an offence.

The treasurer of a trade union or employers’ organisation or branch thereof shall cause a bank account to be opened and maintained in the name of the trade union or employers’ organisation or branch thereof, and shall within seven days of receipt of any money belonging to the trade union or employers’ organisation, pay the money into the bank account.

Where the rules of a trade union or employers’ organisation or branch thereof permits the treasurer to retain in cash a sum not exceeding twenty thousand shillings, the treasurer shall pay into the bank account any cash in his possession which exceeds twenty thousand shillings.

A treasurer of a trade union or employers’ organisation or a branch who contravenes this regulation commits an offence.

The payments made by a member under paragraph (1)(c) shall be recorded in the form set out in the First Schedule.

A registered trade union or employers’ organisation that fails to keep a register of its members in accordance with paragraph (1) commits on offence.

The Registrar shall, upon payment of the prescribed fee, issue a duplicate of any certificate, order or application issued under the Act on it being satisfactorily proved that such certificate, order or application has been lost or destroyed.

A person who collects or receives subscriptions, entrance fees, donations or other contributions for or on behalf of a trade union or an employers’ organisation shall issue to the person paying him an appropriate receipt from a book of printed receipt forms, the forms being each in duplicate and numbered serially.

An employer shall not be required to issue a receipt to his employee for any money collected under paragraph (1) on behalf of a trade union or employers’ organisation in respect of check-off dues.

A collector shall, when issuing a receipt, ensure that the particulars entered on the receipt are legibly duplicated on the printed duplicate, and shall preserve in the book the printed duplicate of every receipt issued.

A collector shall hand over or remit to the treasurer of the trade union or employers’ organisation or of his branch, at intervals of not more than fifteen days, all money collected on behalf of the trade union or employers’ organisation, together with all receipt books in the collector’s possession relating to such money.

A collector shall issue a receipt from the receipt books issued to him in proper sequence in accordance with their serial numbering.

A collector who collects moneys for or on behalf of a trade union or employers’ organisation who contravenes this regulation commits an offence.

The treasurer of a trade union or employers’ organisation or branch thereof shall, when issuing a receipt, ensure that the particulars entered on the receipt form are legibly duplicated by carbon copy on the printed duplicate thereof, and shall preserve in the book the printed duplicate of every receipt issued.

No treasurer of a trade union or employers’ organisation or branch shall issue a receipt from a fresh receipt book unless all receipts from receipts books already in use are completed.

A treasurer of a trade union or employers’ organisation or branch thereof shall issue receipts and receipt books in proper sequence in accordance with their serial numbering.

A treasurer of a trade union or employers’ organisation or branch thereof shall ensure that a collector accounts for all receipt books issued to the collector when the collector accounts for the cash collected by him.

When the necessary information has been obtained from the collector’s receipt book or books, the treasurer may return to the collector for further use such receipt book or books as have not been completed.

A treasurer of a trade union or employers’ organisation or ranch thereof who contravenes this regulation commits an offence.

The treasurer of a trade union or employers’ organisation shall be responsible for the issuance of all receipt books, whether to treasurers of branches or to collectors, and the treasurer of a branch of a trade union or employers’ organisation shall be responsible for the issuance to collectors of all receipt books which received from the treasurer of the trade union or employers’ organisation.

The treasurer of a trade union or employers’ organisation branch thereof, shall keep a record of all receipt books which he receives and issues, and the record shall show the serial numbers of all receipt books received, the dates on which he received the receipt books, the name of the person to whom each receipt book is issued, the date of issuance of the receipt book and the date when the duplicates of the receipt books were returned.

Where a treasurer issues a receipt book to any person other than the treasurer of a branch, he shall not issue any book further book to such person until the duplicate of the first book has been returned.

No treasurer of a branch of a trade union or employers’ organisation or branch thereof shall issue to any person a receipt book other than a receipt book received from the treasurer of the trade union, or employers’ organisation and no treasurer of a branch or a collector shall issue to any person a receipt from a receipt book not issued by the treasurer of the union to him.

A treasurer of a trade union or employers’ organisation or branch thereof who contravenes this regulation commits an offence.

No person shall make a payment out of the funds of a trade union or on employers’ organisation for an object not authorised by the Act or rules of the trade union ore employers’ organisation concerned, and no person shall authorize such payments.

Where a trade union, employers’ organisation or branch thereof employs any person, or engages any person to collect money for it on commission, the treasurer of the trade union, employers’ organisation or branch thereof, shall maintain a wages book in Form S set out in the Schedule, using a separate page for each person so employed or so engaged.

A treasurer of a trade union, an employers’ organization or branch thereof who contravenes paragraph (1) commits an offence.

The treasurer of a trade union or employers’ organization shall keep a cash book in Form T set out in the Schedule, and shall record therein all money received and all money paid by the trade union or employers’ organization including receipts from the payments to branches, in the appropriate columns according to the nature of the receipts and payments and according to whether out of a bank account or other deposit or savings account of the trade union or employers’ organization.

The treasurer shall balance the cash book at the end of every month and shall certify in the cash book that the balances agree with the actual cash in hand and cash at the bank and the treasurer shall sign the certificate.

A treasurer shall keep in respect of every branch of the trade union or an employers’ organization a branch analysis cash book in Form U set out in the Schedule, and shall record therein an analysis of all money received and all money paid by every branch, according to the copies of the cash book sheets received from branch treasures under regulation 9, and the receipts and payments shall be entered in the appropriate columns as prescribed by paragraph (1).

A treasurer of a trade union or employers’ organization who contravenes this regulation commits an offence.

The treasurer of every branch of a trade union or employers’ organization shall keep a cash book in Form V set out in the Schedule with the pages thereof numbered serially, and shall record therein all money received and all money paid by the branch, including receipts from and payments to the trade union headquarters, in the appropriate columns as prescribed by paragraph (1) of regulation 8.

The treasurer shall balance the cash book at the end of every month and shall certify in the cash book that the balances agree with the actual cash in hand and cash at the bank, and the treasurer shall sign such certificate and shall forward to the treasurer of the trade union within seven days after the end of the month a copy of every page of the cash book which relates to that month and particulars of the balances.

A treasurer of a branch of a trade union or employers’ organization who contravenes these regulations commits an offence.

The treasurer of a trade union or employers’ organization or branch thereof shall maintain, in the trade union or employers’ organisation accounts, separate records of any contributions or donations which it collects or receives for a specific purpose, and subject to any resolutions of the members of the trade union or employers’ organisation authorizing the use of such funds and any other purpose, the treasurer shall not disburse any such funds other than for the specific purpose for which they were collected or donated.

A treasurer of a trade union or employers’ organization or branch thereof who contravenes this regulation commits an offence.

The treasurer of a trade union or employers’ organization or branch thereof shall preserve all the books of account and documents kept or made under these Regulations, and all books of duplicate receipts and other supporting documents, for a period of at least three years after the end of the financial year of a trade union or employers’ organisation to which they relate, and shall take all such precautions necessary for their safe custody.

A treasurer of a trade union or employers’ organisation or a branch thereof who contravenes this regulation commits an offence.

The treasurer of a trade union or employers’ organisation or branch thereof shall cause a bank account to be opened and maintained in the name of the trade union or employers’ organisation or branch thereof, and shall within seven days of receipt of any money belonging to the trade union or employers’ organisation, pay the money into the bank account.

Where the rules of a trade union or employers’ organisation or branch thereof permits the treasurer to retain in cash a sum not exceeding twenty thousand shillings, the treasurer shall pay into the bank account any cash in his possession which exceeds twenty thousand shillings.

A treasurer of a trade union or employers’ organisation or a branch who contravenes this regulation commits an offence.

The presentation of an election petition shall be made by delivering it at the office of the Registrar, and the Registrar or the officer of that department to whom the petition is delivered shall issue a receipt in Form 1 set out in the Schedule.

The petition shall be divided into paragraphs, each of which shall be confined, as nearly as is practicable, to a distinct portion of the subject, and every paragraph shall be numbered consecutively, and no costs shall be allowed for drawing or copying any petition not substantially in compliance with these Regulations, unless otherwise ordered by the Industrial Court.

The petition shall conclude with a prayer that a specified person should be declared duly elected or that the election should be declared void, and shall be signed by all the petitioners.

A petition filed under paragraph (1) shall be in Form 2 set out in the Schedule.

Evidence need not be stated in the petition, but the Industrial Court may, upon application in writing by a respondent, order such particulars as may be necessary to prevent surprise and unnecessary expenses and to ensure a fair and effectual trial, upon such terms as to costs and otherwise as may be ordered.

Where more than one petition is presented relating to the same election, all such petitions shall be dealt with as one petition, so far as the inquiry into the election is concerned.

Where a petitioner claims the seat for an unsuccessful candidate alleging that he had a majority of lawful votes, the party complaining of or defending the election shall, within fourteen days before the day appointed for trial, deliver to the Registrar, and at the address given by the petitioner and respondent, as the case may be, a list of the votes intended to be objected to, and of the heads of objection to each such vote.

The Registrar shall allow inspection of copies of the lists to all parties concerned, and no evidence shall be given against the validity of any vote, or upon any head of objection not specified in the list, except by leave of the Industrial Court, granted for special reasons to be recorded, upon such terms as to amendment of the list, postponement of the inquiry and payment of costs as may be ordered.

The respondent in a petition complaining of an improper return and claiming the elective position for another person may lead evidence to prove that the election of that person was improper, and in that case the respondent shall, within seven days before the day appointed for trial, deliver to the Registrar, and at the address, if any, given by the petitioner, a list of the objections to the election upon which he intends to rely.

The Registrar shall allow inspection of copies of the lists to all parties concerned, and no evidence shall be given by a respondent of any objection to the election not specified in the list except by leave of the Industrial Court, granted for special reasons to be recorded, and upon such terms as to amendment of the list, postponement of the inquiry and payment of costs as may be ordered.

A petitioner shall deposit security for the payment of costs that may become payable by the petitioner not more than ten days after the presentation of a petition under these Regulations.

The security to be deposited under paragraph (1) shall be determined by the Industrial Court.

An affidavit which is filed in a petition shall be read by or on behalf of the witness and shall form part of the record of the trial and a deponent may be cross-examined by the respondents and re-examined by the petitioner.

Subject to regulation 4(5), a witness shall not be permitted to give evidence for the respondent unless an affidavit sworn by him, setting out the substance of his evidence, together with sufficient certified true copies of the affidavit are submitted to the Industrial Court and the petitioner during the trial.

An affidavit recorded in a language other than English shall be accompanied by a translation in English, with sufficient copies for the judges and other parties, certified by the person translating it as having been translated to the best of his knowledge and ability.

A witness for the petitioner or the respondent who fails to deliver the affidavit under paragraph (2) or (3) shall not be permitted to give evidence without the leave of the Industrial Court, and the Industrial Court shall not grant such leave unless sufficient reason is given for the failure.

No formal adjournment of the Industrial Court during the trial of an election petition shall be necessary, but the trial shall stand adjourned, and may be continued from day to day until it is concluded.

If one judge of the judges of Industrial Court is disabled by illness or otherwise during the trial, the trial may be continued and concluded by any of the other judges.

An election petition shall not be withdrawn without the leave of the Industrial Court, and leave may be given upon terms as to the payment of costs and otherwise as the Industrial Court may think fit.

Before leave for the withdrawal of an election petition is granted, there shall be produced affidavits, as required by this regulation by all the parties to the petition and their advocates:

Provided that the Industrial Court may, on cause shown, dispense with the affidavit of any particular person if it seems to the Industrial Court on special grounds to be just so to do.

An affidavit shall state that, to the best of the deponent’s knowledge and belief, no agreement or terms of any kind whatsoever has or have been made, and no undertaking has been entered into, in relation to the withdrawal of the petition; but if any lawful agreement has been made with respect to the withdrawal of the petition, the affidavit shall set forth that agreement, and shall make the foregoing statement subject to what appears from the affidavit.

The affidavits of the applicant and his advocate shall further state the ground on which the petition is sought to be withdrawn.

An application for leave to withdraw a petition shall be in writing signed by the petitioner or petitioners, his or their advocate or advocates, and shall state the grounds on which the application is supported.

The costs of and incidental to the presentation of a petition shall be taxed by the Registrar upon the order of the Industrial Court in the same manner as costs are taxed in the High Court, but subject to such express directions whether general or specific, as the Industrial Court may give, and costs when taxed may be recovered in the same manner as the costs in civil proceedings.

The Industrial Court may direct that the whole or any part of any money deposited as of security under regulation 9 may be applied in the payment of taxed costs.

There shall be paid in respect of all proceedings under these Regulations the same court fees as are payable in respect of civil proceedings in the High Court in so far as the same are applicable.