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Trade Union and Labour Relations (Amendment) Act 1976

Consolidated Text As Enacted Cited authorities 16 Cited in Amendments 3 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1976 c. 7
(a) section 5 (rights of workers as to arbitrary or unreasonable exclusion or expulsion from trade union) ;(b) section 6 (provisions as to rules of trade unions and employers’ associations) ;(c) in section 8(6) (power of Registrar of Friendly Societies to remove name of organisation from list of trade unions or list of employers’ associations) , the words “or that its rules do not comply with the provisions of this Act”;(d) in section 29(3) (trade disputes relating to matters occurring outside Great Britain) , the words from “so long as” onwards;(e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (1) For section 7 of the principal Act (right to terminate membership of trade union) there shall be substituted the following section:—
    (7) Right to terminate membership of trade union.In every contract of membership of a trade union, whether made before or after the passing of this Act, there shall be implied a term conferring a right on the member, on giving reasonable notice and complying with any reasonable conditions, to terminate his membership of the union.
In every contract of membership of a trade union, whether made before or after the passing of this Act, there shall be implied a term conferring a right on the member, on giving reasonable notice and complying with any reasonable conditions, to terminate his membership of the union.(2) For section 13(1) of the principal Act (inducing or threatening breach of contract of employment in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute) there shall be substituted the following subsection:—
  • “(1) An act done by a person in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute shall not be actionable in tort on the ground only—
  • (a) that it induces another person to break a contract or interferes or induces any other...
that it induces another person to break a contract or interferes or induces any other

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