(1) The Authorized Trade Union
shall be recognized for the collective bargaining with the management on behalf of
the workers of authorized enterprise level Trade Union.
? (1a) where only one Trade Union is registered in any Enterprise, the
Trade Union registered earlier shall be recognized as the Authorized Trade Union
if another Trade Union is not registered within three months from the date of such
registration.
? (1b) In reckoning the time period of three months as referred to Sub-
section (1a), it shall be reckoned from the date of commencement of this Act.
(2) The Authorized Trade Union recognized pursuant to Sub-section (1)
shall inform to the Registrar and the Manager within fifteen days after such
recognition has been extended.
(3) The Registrar shall provide the certificate of Authorised Trade Union
as prescribed within 15 days from the date of receipt of notice pursuant to Sub-
section (2).
? (4) The procedures relating to the election of the Authorised Trade
Union shall be as prescribed.