Trade Union Act, 1926
3. Appointment of Registrars
10 [(1)] 11[The appropriate government] shall appoint
a person to be the Registrar of Trade Unions for 12[each State].
13 [(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.]