Section 14: Certain Acts not to apply to registered Trade Unions

The Trade Unions Act, 1926 was repealed and replaced by the Industrial Relations Code, 2020 from 21 November 2025. It still applies to matters and proceedings from before that date, as the repealing law provides.

The following Acts, namely:—

(a) The Societies Registration Act, 1860 (21 of 1860),

(b) The Co-operative Societies Act, 1912 (2 of 1912), * * * * * [(e) The Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956),] shall not apply to any registered Trade Union, and the registration of any such Trade Union under any such Act shall be void.

Source: India Code (Legislative Department), the text of the Act as it stood before its repeal. Words in square brackets [ ] were inserted or substituted by later amending Acts, and *** marks words omitted by an amendment. The amendment footnotes are not reproduced here. Official text on India Code.

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