§ 57 — Application of funds

57.—(1) The funds of a registered platform work association may, subject to the rules of the platform work association and the provisions of this Act, be expended only for the following objects:(a)

the payment of salaries, allowances and expenses to officers of the platform work association;

(b)

the payment of expenses for the administration of the platform work association, including audit of the accounts of the funds of the platform work association;

(c)

the prosecution or defence of any legal proceeding to which the platform work association or any member of the platform work association is a party, when the prosecution or defence is undertaken for the purpose of securing or protecting any rights of the platform work association as such or any rights arising out of the relations of any member with a platform operator for whom the member provides a platform service or with a platform worker who provides a platform service for the member, as the case may be;

(d)

the conduct of work disputes on behalf of the platform work association or any member of the platform work association;

(e)

the compensation of members for loss arising out of work disputes;

(f)

allowances to members or their dependants on account of death, old age, sickness or accidents of the members or the inability of the members to provide a platform service with which the platform work association is concerned;

(g)

any other object which the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, declare to be an object for which such funds may be expended.

(2) Any moneys received for a specific purpose by a platform work association from its members, which the members are liable to pay in accordance with its rules, must not be used or applied for any other purpose without the requisite consent of the members of the platform work association.

(3) The secretary of the platform work association must, within 7 days from the date the requisite consent mentioned in subsection (2) is obtained, notify the Registrar of the consent and provide to the Registrar any information in respect of the consent as the Registrar may require.

—(1) The funds of a registered platform work association may, subject to the rules of the platform work association and the provisions of this Act, be expended only for the following objects:(a)

the payment of salaries, allowances and expenses to officers of the platform work association;

(b)

the payment of expenses for the administration of the platform work association, including audit of the accounts of the funds of the platform work association;

(c)

the prosecution or defence of any legal proceeding to which the platform work association or any member of the platform work association is a party, when the prosecution or defence is undertaken for the purpose of securing or protecting any rights of the platform work association as such or any rights arising out of the relations of any member with a platform operator for whom the member provides a platform service or with a platform worker who provides a platform service for the member, as the case may be;

(d)

the conduct of work disputes on behalf of the platform work association or any member of the platform work association;

(e)

the compensation of members for loss arising out of work disputes;

(f)

allowances to members or their dependants on account of death, old age, sickness or accidents of the members or the inability of the members to provide a platform service with which the platform work association is concerned;

(g)

any other object which the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, declare to be an object for which such funds may be expended.

(2) Any moneys received for a specific purpose by a platform work association from its members, which the members are liable to pay in accordance with its rules, must not be used or applied for any other purpose without the requisite consent of the members of the platform work association.

(3) The secretary of the platform work association must, within 7 days from the date the requisite consent mentioned in subsection (2) is obtained, notify the Registrar of the consent and provide to the Registrar any information in respect of the consent as the Registrar may require.