Arbitration (Masters and Workmen) Act 1872
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1872 c. 46 |
| Year | 1872 |
Arbitration (Masters and Workmen) Act, 1872
(35 & 36 Vict.) CHAPTER 46.
An Act to make further provision for Arbitration between Masters and Workmen.
[6th August 1872]
Whereas by the Act of the fifth year of George the Fourth, chapter ninety-six, intituled ‘ An Actto consolidate and amend the laws relative to the arbitration of disputes between masters and workmen,’ herein-after referred to as the ‘principal Act,’ provision is made for the arbitration in a mode therein prescribed of certain disputes between masters and workmen:
And whereas it is expedient to make further provision for arbitration between masters and workmen:
Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1 As to agreements under this Act.
1. The following provisions shall have effect with reference to agreements under this Act:
(1) (1.) An agreement under this Act shall either designate some board, council, persons or person as arbitrators or arbitrator, or define the time and manner of appointment of arbitrators or of an arbitrator; and shall designate, by name or by description of office or otherwise, some person to be, or some person or persons (other than the arbitrators or arbitrator) to appoint an umpire in case of disagreement between arbitrators:
(2) (2.) A master and a workman shall become mutually bound by an agreement under this Act (herein-after referred to as ‘the agreement’) upon the master or his agent giving to the workman and the workman accepting a printed copy of the agreement:
Provided that a workman may, within forty-eight hours after the delivery to him of the agreement, give notice to the master or his agent that he will not be bound by the agreement, and thereupon the agreement shall be of no effect as between such workmen and the master:
(3) (3.) When a master and workman are bound by the agreement they shall continue so bound during the continuance of any contract of employment and service which is in force between them at the time of making the agreement, or in contemplation of which the agreement is made, and thereafter so long as they mutually consent from time to time to continue to employ and serve without having rescinded the agreement. Moreover, the agreement may provide that any number of days' notice, not exceeding six, of an...
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