No officer or servant shall be a member, representative or office-bearer of any Association representing or purporting 20 to represent officers or servants of the Board or any class of officers or servants, unless such Association satisfies the following conditions, namely.-
(a) membership of the Association shall be confined to a distinct class of Board's servants and shall be open to all Board's servants of that class;
(b) the Association shall not in any way be connected with any political party or organisation or engage itself in any political activity;
(c) the Association shall be a recognised one and such recognition shall be accorded by the Board;
(d) the Association shall not issue or maintain any publication, political or otherwise, except with the permission of the Board;
(e) except with the previous sanction of the Board, the Association shall not publish any representation on behalf of its members, whether in the press or otherwise;
(f) the Association shall not in any way, be connected with any election to a Legislative body, whether in India or elsewhere or to a local authority or a body; and
(g) the Association shall not pay or contribute towards expenses of any trade union which has constituted a fund under section 16 of the Indian Trade Union's Act, 1926 (Central Act XVI of 1926).