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Trade Disputes and Trade Unions.
[17 GEO. 5.]
A.D. 1927. twenty pounds or to imprisonment for a term not
exceeding three months.
Provisions
cal fund.
4.-(1) It shall not be lawful to require any member as to politi- of a trade union to make any contribution to the political
fund of a trade union unless before the date upon which 5 the contribution is levied he has delivered at the head office or some branch office of the trade union, notice in writing in the form set out in the First Schedule to this Act of his willingness to contribute to that fund and has not withdrawn the notice in manner hereinafter provided; 10 and every member of a trade union who has not delivered such notice as aforesaid, or who, having delivered such a notice, has withdrawn it in manner hereinafter pro- vided, shall be deemed for the purposes of the Trade Union Act, 1913, to be a member who is exempt from 15 the obligation to contribute to the political fund of the union, and references in that Act to a member who is so exempt shall be construed accordingly:
Provided that, if at any time a member of a trade union who has delivered such a notice as aforesaid 20 gives notice of withdrawal thereof, delivered at the head office or at any branch office of the trade union, he shall be deemed for the purposes of this subsection to have withdrawn the notice as from the first day of January next after the delivery of the notice of withdrawal.
For the purposes of this subsection a notice shall be deemed to have been delivered at the head or a branch office of a trade union if it has been sent by post properly addressed to that office.
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(2) All contributions to the political fund of a trade 30 union from members of the trade union who are liable to contribute to that fund shall be levied and made separately from any contributions to the other funds of the trade union and no assets of the trade union, other than the amount raised by such a separate levy as 35 aforesaid, shall be carried to that fund or directly or indirectly applied or charged in furtherance of any political object to which section three of the Trade Union Act, 1913, applies; and any charge in contravention of this subsection shall be void.
(3) All rules of a trade union made and approved in accordance with the requirements of section three
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