Section 70: Ineligibility for membership in trade union

and inapplicability of certain laws (1) The following persons shall not be eligible to become members of a trade union- (a) members of the Uganda Peoples' Defence Forces and members of any police force, or prisons service, including a local administration police force or prisons service established by law; (b) officers of the Internal Security Organisation and External Security Organisation; and (c) other persons or categories of persons referred to in the Second Schedule to this Act which Schedule the Minister may, from time to time, amend by statutory instrument. (2) The Companies Act and the Cooperative Societies Act shall not apply to the National Organisation of Trade Unions or any trade union, and the registration of any trade union under either of those Acts shall be void. First Schedule (Section 32) Matters for which provision shall be made in the constitution or rules of the National Organisation of Trade Unions and the trade unions.