explanation—for the purposes of this sub-section, an employee who has retired or has been retrenched 'shall not be construed as outsider for the purpose of holding an office in a trade union (3) no member of the council of ministers or a person holding an office of profit (not being an engagement or employment in an establishment or industry with which the trade union is connected), in the union or a state, shall be a member of the executive or other office-bearer of a registered trade union" 9 in section 29 of the principal act, after sub-section (2), the following sub-sections amendment of section 29shall be inserted, namely:— (3) every notification made by the central government under sub-section (/) of section 22, and every regulation made by it under sub-section (/), shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before each house of parliament, while it is in session, for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, both houses agree in making any modification in the notification or regulation, or both houses agree that the notification or regulation should not be made; the notification or regulation shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that notification or regulation (4) every notification made by the state government under sub-section (j) of section 22 and every regulation made by it under sub-section (j) shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before the state legislature"  statement of objects and reasonsthe trade unions act, 1926 provides for registration of trade unions of employers and workmen a bill, namely, the trade unions and industrial disputes (amendment) bill, 1988 was introduced in the rajya sabha to amend, inter alia, the trade unions act, 1926 the said bill was withdrawn in 1990 and a bipartite committee with a term of reference "formulation of specific proposals for a new industrial relations bill'? comprising representatives of employers' organisations and central trade unions was constituted under the chairmanship of shri g ramanujam the committee submitted its report in october, 1990 2 based on the recommendations of the ramanujam committee and subsequent deliberations held thereon, a bill for amending the trade unions act, 1926 was drawn up the bill, at the introduction stage was agreed to be referred to the parliamentary standing committee on labour and welfare the proposals were also-referred to the bipartite committee set up by the government for formulation of a comprehensive industrial relations law with a view to soliciting detailed views of labour on the proposed amendments the workers' group of the bipartite committee representing various central trade union organisations submitted its recommendations to the government 3 the provisions of the present bill with minor amendments are based upon the recommendations made by the trade union organisations the thrust of the recommendations is aimed at reducing multiplicity of the trade unions, promoting internal democracy, rank and file leadership of trade unions and facilitating their orderly growth and regulation 4 the important provisions of the bill are as under:— (i) section 4 is being amended with a view to making an additional provision that no trade union of workmen shall be registered unless at least ten per cent or one hundred, whichever is less, of workmen engaged or employed in the establishment or industry with which it is connected, are on the date of filing the application for registration, the members of such trade union and in no case a union shall be registered without a minimum strength of seven members; (ii) section 6 of the bill may be modified to incorporate the minimum rates of subscription of membership for rural workers and workers in the unorganised sector; (iii) section 9a has also been inserted to provide that a registered trade union of workmen shall at all times continue to have not less than ten per cent or one hundred of the workmen, whichever is less, subject to a minimum of seven, engaged or employed in an establishment or industry with which it is concerned, as its members; (iv) section 11 of the trade unions act may be amended to provide for an appeal before the industrial tribunal/labour court in case of non-registration/ restoration of registration; (v) section 22 of the act will be substituted, so that all office-bearers of a registered trade union, except not more than one-third of the total number of officebearers or five, whichever is less, shall be persons actually engaged or employed in the establishment or industry with which the trade union is connected the employees who have retired or have been retrenched shall not be construed as outsiders for the purpose of holding an office in a trade union in case of unorganised sector, however, the present provision of section 22 of the act would continue to be applicable 5 the bill seeks to achieve the above objects new delhi, the 11th april, 2000 satyanarayan jattya memorandum regarding delegated legislationclause 8 of the bili empowers the appropriate government to specify a sector as an unorganised sector, by notification, for the purposes of this bill clause 9 of the bill envisages that every notification made by the central government or the state government, as the case may be, under clause 8 shall be laid as soon as_may be, after it is made before each house of parliament and before the state legislature, concerned 2 the matters in respect of which the notifications may be issued under the above mentioned provision relate to administrative detail and procedure the delegation of the legislative power is, therefore, of a normal character