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Trade Disputes and Trade Unions.
[17 GEO. 5.]
A.D. 1927. political objects, and that it is not associated directly
or indirectly with any political party or organisation:
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Provisions as to
persons employed by local and other public
Provided that the regulations made in compliance with the provisions of this section shall not prevent-
(a) an established civil servant from remaining a 5
member of any trade union or organisation of which he had, at the commencement of this Act, been a member for more than six months if under the rules thereof he is or may become entitled to any payment during incapacity, or 10 by way of superannuation, or on the death of himself or his wife, or as provision for his children; or
(b) a person who in addition to being an established
civil servant is, apart from his service as such, 15 also engaged in some other employment or occupation from being any member, delegate, or representative of a trade union or organisation, of which the primary object is to influence or affect the remuneration or conditions of employ- 20 ment of persons engaged in that employment or occupation.
(2) If any established civil servant knowingly con- travenes any of the provisions of the said regulations he shall be disqualified for continuing to be a member of 25 the Civil Service.
(3) In this section the expression "established civil "servant " means a person serving in an established capacity in the permanent service of the Crown, and includes any person who, having been granted a certi- 30 ficate by the Civil Service Commissioners, is serving a probationary period preliminary to establishment.
6.--(1) It shall not be lawful for any local or other public authority to make it a condition of the employ- ment or continuance in employment of any person that 35 he shall or shall not be a member of a trade union, or to impose any condition upon persons employed by the authority whereby employees who are or who are not authorities. members of a trade union are liable to be placed in any
respect either directly or indirectly under any disability 40 or disadvantage as compared with other employees, and any condition imposed in contravention of this section shall be void.