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SECTION 3 — The law recognizes the right of workers and employers, without distinction whatsoever, to set up freely and without prior authorization (trade unions or employers' associations), associations for the study, defence, promotion and protection of their interests, particularly those of an economic, industrial, commercial or agricultural nature, and for the social, economic, cultural and moral advancement of their members.

In French La loi reconnaît aux travailleurs et aux employeurs, sans restriction d’aucune sorte et sans autorisation préalable, le droit de créer librement des syndicats professionnels ayant pour objet l’étude, la défense, le développement et la protection de leurs intérêts notamment économiques, industriels, commerciaux et agricoles, ainsi que le progrès social, économique, culturel et moral de leurs membres.

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Texte français

ARTICLE 3 — La loi reconnaît aux travailleurs et aux employeurs, sans restriction d’aucune sorte et sans autorisation préalable, le droit de créer librement des syndicats professionnels ayant pour objet l’étude, la défense, le développement et la protection de leurs intérêts notamment économiques, industriels, commerciaux et agricoles, ainsi que le progrès social, économique, culturel et moral de leurs membres.

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• SECTION 3The law recognizes the right of workers and employers, without distinction whatsoever, to set up freely and without prior authorization (trade unions or employers' associations), associations for the study, defence, promotion and protection of their interests, particularly those of an economic, industrial, commercial or agricultural nature, and for the social, economic, cultural and moral advancement of their members.
• SECTION 4
• SECTION 5
• SECTION 6
• SECTION 7
• SECTION 8Every application for registration of a trade union or employers' association shall be signed by at least 20 members if it is a workers' union or at least 5 members if it is an employers' association.
• SECTION 9The form under which trade unions or employers' associations shall be set up in order for them to be registered shall be fixed by decree after the recommendation of the National
• SECTION 10
• SECTION 11
• SECTION 12
• SECTION 13
• SECTION 14Any trade union, member of a trade union or person feeling aggrieved by a decision of the registrar to refuse or to cancel registration of a trade union or employers' association may, within thirty (30) days of notification of such decision, refer the matter to the competent court, the judgement of which shall be open to appeal.