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Practice question: Union Funds

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Practice question

Officers fail the periodic report duty and a manager invokes an older printed automatic-cancellation clause as conclusive current law, without examining RA9481. Which distinction is required?
  1. Reporting duties remain, but RA9481 states failure of its listed reports is not itself a registration-cancellation ground
  2. All reporting duties vanished
  3. Every late report automatically cancels registration despite amendment
  4. Management may revoke registration itself
  5. Amendments may always be ignored

Legal references

  • Labor Code Article250[241] current membership safeguards, read with RA9481: https://lawphil.net/statutes/presdecs/pd1974/pd_442a_1974.html Paragraphs(b),(j)–(m).
  • RA9481 Sections3,5,7, current cancellation/reporting rules: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2007/ra_9481_2007.html Section7 no automatic cancellation for reporting failure.

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