38. Rules.
(1) The rules of every registered trade union shall make provision for all the matters specified in the First Schedule, and shall not be so altered or amended as to cease to contain provision in respect of all such matters.
(2) A copy printed in National Language or English or Tamil or Chinese of the rules for the time being in force of any registered trade union shall be prominently exhibited in such place as it may easily be read at the registered office thereof and shall be furnished by the secretary of such trade union to any person on demand on payment of a sum not exceeding one ringgit:
Provided that if the copy of the rules is not printed in National Language or English, a typewritten or otherwise mechanically produced copy of the rules in National Language or English as registered and signed by the president, secretary and treasurer of the union shall, in addition, be prominently exhibited at the registered office and shall be furnished by the secretary with every copy of the printed rules of the union in Tamil or Chinese on demand.
(3) A copy in National Language of every new rule and of every alteration made in the rules of a registered trade union shall be sent to the Registrar within thirty days of the making of such rule or alteration and shall if approved by him be registered by the Registrar on payment of the prescribed fee:
Provided that any alteration of the rules which results in increasing the liability of the members to contribute other than the increase of members subscription or in decreasing the benefits to which members are entitled shall not be approved by the Registrar unless more than one half of the members entitled to vote in accordance with the union's rules have voted in favour of the proposed alteration.
(4) Every alteration of the rules of a trade union shall take effect from the date of registration by the Director General unless some later date is specified in the rules.
(5) The Minister may by order add to, delete from or amend the First Schedule.
