Trade Disputes Act · 1984 Revised Edition
Section 14
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act it shall be lawful for one or more persons acting on their own behalf or on behalf of a registered trade union or of an individual employer or firm in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute to attend at or ne~r a house or place where a person resides or works or carries on business or happens to be, if they so attend merely for the purpose of peacefully obtaining or communicating information, or of peacefully persuading any person to work or abstain from working.
It shall not be lawful for one or more persons, whether acting on their behalf or on behalf of a trade union or of an individual employer or firm and notwithstanding that they may be acting in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute, to attend at or near a house or place where a person resides or works or carries on business or happens to be, for the purpose of obtaining or communicating informa-tion or of persuading or including any person to work or to abstain from working, if they so attend in such numbers or otherwise in such manner as to be calculated to intimidate any person in that house or place, or to obstruct the approach thereto or egress therefrom, or to lead to a breach of the peace.
trade union
"trade union" means any combination whether temporary or permanent the principal purposes of which are under its constitution the regulation of the relations between worker and employers, or between workers and workers or between em-ployers and employers, whether such combination would or would not if this Act had not been enacted have been deemed to have been an unlaw-ful combityition by reason of some one or more of its purposes being in restraint of trade;
Any person who acts in contravention of this sec-tion shall be guilty of an offence: Penalty, imprisonment for 3 months and with a fine of $3,000.
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Peaceful picketing and prevention of intimidation
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Application
Use of ex-isting machinery for settle-ment of dis-putes
Conciliation and inquiry
Trade Disputes
Terms defined in s 2
trade dispute
Defined · s 2"trade dispute" means any dispute between em-ployers and workers, or between workers and workers connected with the employment or non-employment, or the terms of the employment or with the conditions of any person;
trade union
Defined · s 2"trade union" means any combination whether temporary or permanent the principal purposes of which are under its constitution the regulation of the relations between worker and employers, or between workers and workers or between em-ployers and employers, whether such combination would or would not if this Act had not been enacted have been deemed to have been an unlaw-ful combityition by reason of some one or more of its purposes being in restraint of trade;
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