Section 3:
Appointment of Registrars.
1[(1)]
2[The appropriate Government] shall appoint a person to be
be the Registrar of Trade Unions for 3[each State].
4[(2) The appropriate Government may appoint as many Additional and Deputy Registrars of
Trade Unions as it thinks fit for the purpose of exercising and discharging, under the
superintendence and direction of the Registrar, such powers and functions of the Registrar under
this Act as it may, by order, specify and define the local limits within which any such Additional or
Deputy Registrar shall exercise and discharge the powers and functions so specified.
(3) Subject to the provisions of any order under sub-section (2), where an Additional or Deputy
Registrar exercises and discharges the powers and functions of a Registrar in an area within which the
registered office of a Trade Union is situated, the Additional or Deputy Registrar shall be deemed to be
the Registrar in relation to the Trade Union for the purposes of this Act.]
Notes:
1. Section 3 renumbered as sub-section (1) thereof by Act 42 of 1960, s. 4.
2. Subs. by the A.O. 1937, for Each L.G..
3. Subs., ibid., for the Province.
4. Ins. by Act 42 of 1960, s. 4.