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PAKISTAN ENGINEERING COUNCIL versus REGISTRAR, TRADE UNIONS

Industrial Relations Ordinance 1969 Sections 2 (ix), 2 (xiv) and 7 (2) West Pakistan Industrial and Commercial Employment (Standing Orders) Ordinance (VI of 1968), Section 2 (h) Constitution of Pakistan (1973), Article 199 Constitution Application Certificate of Registration Certificate to Employees of Pakistan Engineering Council Industrial Establishment and Explanation of Industry Terms such as Industrial Relations Ordinance, 1969 and West Pakistan Industrial and Commercial Employment (Standing Orders) Ordinance, 1968 in the Definition of Trade Establishment Section as Section As given in 2 (b), the West Pakistan Industrial and Commercial Employment Ordinance, 1968, applies to the ordinance itself. The WAGA and it may not even apply to cases involving the Industrial Relations Ordinance, 1969, which itself contains the definition of the term \ Establishment \ and \ Industry. The Pakistan Engineering Council was neither establishment nor industry, therefore, all those umpires who were "laborers" in the sense of the Industrial Relations Ordinance, 1969, did not have the right to register their union. Were also legally defective under the provisions of the Ordinance Certificate of Registration by the Registrar of Trade Unions. The applicant (engineering council) was not given any opportunity before enrolling in his employees union law firms from Kunjah lawyer