Trade Unions Act · 2023 Revised Edition
3. Trade unions not criminal
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
The purposes of any trade union shall not, by reason merely that they are in restraint of trade, be deemed to be unlawful so as to render any member of such trade union liable to criminal prosecution for conspiracy or otherwise.
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 workers and employers, or between workers and workers, or between employers and employers, whether such combination would or would not, if this Act had not been enacted, have been deemed to have been an unlawful combination by reason of some one or more of its purposes being in restraint of trade;
Terms defined in s 2
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 workers and employers, or between workers and workers, or between employers and employers, whether such combination would or would not, if this Act had not been enacted, have been deemed to have been an unlawful combination by reason of some one or more of its purposes being in restraint of trade;