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PNG-1962-L-65908
Breadcrumb
Title_of_text
Industrial Organizations Act 1962 (Cap. 173).
Main Region
First Region
Country(ies)
Papua New Guinea
Subjects (Classification)
Freedom of association, collective bargaining and industrial relations
Adopted on (Date of text)
1962
Scope of text
National
Type of legislation (Type of text)
Law, Act
Second Region
Abstract/Citation
The Act provides for the registration and control of industrial organizations. An “industrial organization” under the Act "means a trade or other union, or branch of a union, or an organization or body–
(a) that is composed of, or is representative of, employers or employees; and
(b) one of the objects of which is, under its constitution, the regulation, in respect of industrial matters, of the relations between–
(i) employees and employers; or
(ii) employees and employees; or
(iii) employers and employers,
or for taking part in or in the settlement of industrial disputes on behalf of its members, whether it would or would not, if this Act had not been passed, have been deemed to be unlawful by reason of some one or more of its objects being in restraint of trade."
Part I: Preliminary
Part II: Registrar and other officers
Part III: Registration
Part IV: Rights and liabilities of registered industrial organizations
Part V: Constitutions of industrial organizations
Part VI: Funds and accounts
Part VII: Miscellaneous.
Implementing Text region
Implementing text(s)
1963 (PNG-1963-R-65907)
Industrial Organizations Regulation 1963 (Cap. 173).
Implementing text(s)
1963 (PNG-1963-R-65907)
Industrial Organizations Regulation 1963 (Cap. 173).
Amending Text region
Amending text(s)
1978-03-31 (PNG-1978-L-12975)
Industrial Organisations (Amendment) (Collection of Union Contributions) Act 1978.
Amending text(s)
2016-12-13 (PNG-2016-L-105173)
Industrial Organizations (Amendment) Act 2016 (No. 14 of 2016).
Electronic region
Electronic source title
Act on-line
Author
Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (PacLII)
Publisher
University of the South Pacific
URL
http://www.paclii.org/pg/legis/consol_act/ioa1962293/
File
PNG65908 2006.pdf (PDF of Act as consolidated to 2006)
Monograph region
Monograph title
CD-Rom: Legislation and Case Law of PNG
Publisher
Thomson Legal and Regulatory Ltd
Country
Australia
Page range
pp. 255-292