SECTION 18

(1) Trade unions and employers' associations may : • (a) exercise in any court the rights reserved to civil action plaintiffs in criminal proceedings, in relation to acts causing direct or indirect prejudice to the collective interest of the trade or occupation which they represent; • (b) allocate a part of their resources to the buildings of workers' dwelling or the purchase of lands for cultivation or sports grounds for the use of their members ; • (c) Establish, administer or make grants to institutions serving to trade or occupation such as provident schemes, solidarity funds, laboratories, experimental farming stations, schemes for scientific, agricultural or social education, courses and publications in matters concerning the trade or occupation; the movable and immovable property required for their meetings, libraries and vocational instruction courses shall be exempt from attachment; • (d) make grants to producer or consumer co-operative societies ; • (e) make contracts or agreements with any other trade unions, employers' associations, companies, undertakings or persons. (2) If they are so authorized by their rules and on condition that they make no distribution of profits (even by way of rebate) among their members, trade unions and employers' association may also : • (a) purchase, with a view to hiring out, lending or distribution to their members, anything that is necessary for the trade or occupation, including raw material, tools, implements, machinery, fertilizers, seeds, plants, animals and feed for cattle ; • (b) provide a free service for the sale of products derived exclusively from the personal labour or holdings of the members, and promote such sale by means of exhibitions, advestisements, publications, group orders and deliveries, but not by carrying out the selling operation in their own name and on their own responsibility.