Section 48, The Industrial Relations and Trade Union Act, 2024

(1) A person who, with intent to mislead or defraud, givesto a member of a registered trade union or employers' organisation or to any person intending or applying to become a member of such trade union or employers' organisation, - (a) a copy of a constitution or of an alteration or amendment of the constitution other than that which exists for the time being, on the pretence that it is the existing constitution of such trade union or employers' organisation, or that there is no other constitution of such trade union or employers'organisation, or (b) a copy of a constitution on the pretence that such constitution is the constitution of trade union or employers' organisation registered under this Act which is not so registered, commits an offence and is liable, on conviction, to a fine not less than 40 months national minimum wage or to imprisonment for not less than 12 months, or to both such fine and imprisonment and will be banned for 2 years from holding a position or associating with another trade union.