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32.
BERMUDA
THE TRADE UNION ACT, 1965
(1) It shall be lawful for one or more persone, actin, on their own behalf or on behalf of a trade union cr of an individual employer or firm, in contemplation or furtherande of a trade dispute, to attend at or near a place where a person works or carries on business or happens to be, if they are ordinarily engaged in the trade or industry in which the trade dispute occurs and if they ́bb ́attend merely for the purpose of peacefully obtaining or communicating information, or of peace-. fully persuading any person to work or abstain from working and, in doing so, comply with the picketing rules set out in the First Scheduia;
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(a) shall confer any immunity in respect of any act done
in contemplation or furtherance of a strike or lock-out which is declared by section 34 to be illegal; or
(b) shall, save as provided in section 29, confer any in-
munity from criminal or civil proceedings in respect trespass.
(2) Any person who watches or besets any place and fails to comply with any of the picketing rules shall be guilty of an offince against this act and shall be liable on conviction before a court of summary Jurisdiction to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds.
PICKETING RULES
A person shall be deemed to be complying with the picketing rules if and so long as all the following rules are satisfied, namely that;-
1. He is picketing in furtherance of a trade dispute in respect of which a strike or lock-out has been lawfully declared.
2. If he is a member of a trade union engaged in the strike or lock-out, he is carrying on his person a written authorisation signed by an officer of the trade union concerned, on behalf of that trade union, which states his name and address and that he is authorised to picket on behalf of that trade whion.
3. He produces that written authorisation for inspection when requested to do so by any police officer, or, if he is not a member of a trade union, he answers truthfully any question put to him by a police officer concerning his name, address, occupation and place of work.
4. He is picketing alone or with not more than nine other individuals at the premises concerned:
Provided that, if more than one union is lawfully engaged in the strike or lockout, each such union shall be entitled to be represented in proportion to the number of uni ns so engaged 80, however, that the total number of picketers at the premises concerned shall not exceed ten, or one representative of each
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