Section 34: Admission of further bodies to membership of the Federation of Trade Unions. (As Amended by Section 8 of the Trade Unions (Amendment) Act, 2005)

(1) A federation of trade unions may be registered by the registrar if:
(a) its main objective is to represent the interest of employees;
(b) it is made up of 12 or more trade unions none of which shall have been a member of another registered federation of trade unions;
(c) it has been established by resolution of the national delegates conference of the trade unions that constitutes its members.
(d) it has adopted a name that does not resemble the name of another federation of trade unions;
(e) it has adopted a constitution and or rules in accordance with the First Schedule of this Act;
(f) it has its head office in the Federal Republic of Nigeria; and
(g) it has submitted to the Registrar an application in the prescribed form signed by at least two authorized members of at least 12 registered trade unions wishing to become its members.
(2)
Upon receipt of an application as required by subsection (1) of this section, the Registrar shall within 90 days if satisfied that all requirements with respect to the registration of Federation of Trade Unions have been met, register the Federation concerned and evidence such registration with the issuance of a Certificate of Registration.
(3)
The requirements for registration of trade unions or federation of trade unions introduced into the Principal Act by this Act, shall not apply to any of the unions which immediately before the coming into force of this Act, had been duly registered or deemed duly registered under this Act (as amended) and such trade unions or federation of trade unions shall, subject to the requirements introduced by this Act, continue to exist in accordance with the right attached to their registration as such, unless and until they are dissolved, amalgamated, judicially forfeited or cancellation of their registration certificate;
(4)
Subject to this section, a body which is either a trade union or registered federation of trade unions may become a member of the Federation of Trade Union, but shall not do so unless the joining body is eligible for membership of the Organisation under the rules of the Organisation and, in the case of the trade union or each of the trade unions concerned-
(a) a resolution approving the proposed application for membership of the Organisation has, in a secret ballot held at such a meeting as is mentioned in paragraph
(a) of section 33 (2) of this Act been passed in the circumstances mentioned in that paragraph; and
(b) all reasonable steps were taken by the union to secure that, not less than ninety days before the date of that meeting, every member of the union was supplied with a notice in the prescribed form setting out the resolution .
(5)
The admission of a joining body to membership of the Federation of Trade Unions shall not take effect until the joining body is registered as a member of the Organisation.
(6)
Where the Central Labour Organisation proposes to admit a body to membership of the Organisation and the requirements of subsection (1) of this section have been complied with as regards the trade union or each of the trade unions concerned, there must be sent to the Registrar-
(a) a notice in the prescribed form of the proposed admission of the joining body
signed by seven members of the trade union or each of the trade unions concerned
and counter-signed by the secretary of that unions or of each of those unions and if the joining body is a federation of trade unions, by the secretary thereof;
(b) in respect of the trade union or each of the trade unions concerned, a statutory
declaration by the secretary thereof that the requirements of subsection (I) of this section have been complied with; and
(c) a certificate in the prescribed form signed by the secretary of the Organisation that the admission of the joining body has been approved in accordance with the rules of the Organisation.
(7)
On receipt of the notice and the certificate required by subsection (3) (a) and (c) of this section and the necessary statutory declaration, the Registrar, if satisfied that the requirements of this Act and the Regulations have been complied with, shall register the joining body as a member of the Federation of Trade Unions.
(8) In this section-
(a) "joining body", in relation to a Federation of Trade Unions, means a trade union or federation of trade unions proposing to become a member of that Organisation;
and
(b) "trade union concerned", in the case of a joining body which is a trade union, means that trade union or, in the case of a joining body which is a federation of trade unions, means a trade union which is a member of that federation.