Section 47 Candidates.
(1)
No member of the trade union shall be unreasonably excluded from standing as a candidate.
(2)
No candidate shall be required, directly or indirectly, to be a member of a political party.
(3)
A member of a trade union shall not be taken to be unreasonably excluded from standing as a candidate if he is excluded on the ground that he belongs to a class of which all the members are excluded by the rules of the union.
But a rule which provides for such a class to be determined by reference to whom the union chooses to exclude shall be disregarded.