Section 44, The Industrial Relations and Trade Union Act, 2024

(1) The Registrar shall not, except with the consent of the Joint Consultative Committee, register a trade union or employers' organisation which contains a word which, in the opinion of the Registrar, are deceptive, ambiguous or objectionable in that they contain a reference direct or otherwise to a personage, practice or institution, or is otherwise unsuitable as a name for a trade union or employers' organisation. (2) Where a trade union or employers' organisation is already registered and its name contains words which are prohibited under sub-section (1) the Registrar shall call upon such union or organisation to change its name within a period of 2 months and in the event of such union or organisation failing to change its name to the satisfaction of the Registrar it shall be struck off the Register. (3) A union or organisation shall not be registered under a name identical with that of an existing union or organisation or so nearly resembling such name as to be likely to deceive its members or members of the public. (4) Where the Joint Consultative Committee decides that a certain name may be used by a specified trade union or employers' organisation such name may be registered in respect of that union or organisation or may be retained, subject to subsections (1) and (2), by that union or organisation, as the case may be. (5) Where the Registrar refuses to register a union or an organisation, he shall forthwith inform the applicant in writing of the grounds of such refusal.