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(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 18,— (a) a society or Trade Union may, on behalf of its member, make the petition referred to in section 18; (b) a society or Trade Union may, on behalf of an individual, make the petition referred to in section 18, if the individual consents to the same; (c) a society or Trade Union may be added by the Commission, on its own motion or a petition in that behalf being presented to the Commission by the society or Trade Union, as a party to a petition referred to in section 18. (2) In case a society or Trade Union makes the petition referred to in section 18, the provisions of section 18 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the society or Trade Union. (3) Nothing in this section shall authorise any society or Trade Union to prosecute or defend any petition where prosecution or defence of the petition is foreign to the objects of the society or Trade Union.