law: Trade Union Act, 1926 
  15. Objects on which general funds may be spent 
  The general funds of a registered trade union shall not be spent
  
  on any other objects than the following namely- 
  (a) the payment of salaries, allowances and expenses to 8[office-bearers]
  
  of the trade unions;
  (b) the payment of expenses for the administration of the trade
  
  union, including audit of the accounts of the general funds of the trade union;
  
  
  (c) the prosecution or defense of any legal proceeding to which
  
  the trade union or any member thereof is a party, when such prosecution of
  
  defense is undertaken for the purpose of securing or protecting any rights of
  
  the trade union as such or any rights arising out of the relations of any
  
  member with his employer or with a person whom the member employs;
  (d) the conduct of trade disputes on behalf of the trade union
  
  or any member thereof;
  (e) the compensation of members for loss arising out of trade
  
  disputes;
  (f) allowances to members or their dependants on account of
  
  death, old age, sickness, accidents or unemployment of such members;
  (g) the issue of, or the undertaking of liability under,
  
  policies of assurance on the lives of members, or (under) policies insuring
  
  members against sickness, accident or unemployment;
  (h) the provision of education, social or religious benefits for
  
  members (including the payment of the expenses of funeral or religious
  
  ceremonies for deceased members) or for the dependants of members;
  (i) the upkeep of a periodical published mainly for the purpose
  
  of discussing questions affecting employers or workmen as such;
  (j) the payment, in furtherance of any of the objects on which
  
  the general funds of the trade union may be spent, of contributions to any
  
  cause intended to benefit workmen in general provided that the expenditure in
  
  respect of such contributions in any financial year shall not at any time
  
  during that year be in excess of one-fourth of the combined total of the gross
  
  income which has up to that time accrued to the general funds of the trade
  
  union during that year and of the balance at the credit of those funds at the
  
  commencement of that year; and
  (k) subject to any conditions contained in the notification, any
  
  other object notified by the 18[appropriate government] in the
  
  Official Gazette.