Trade Unions and Trade Disputes.
act which is punishable on summary conviction, and is sentenced to imprisonment, the imprisonment shall not exceed three months, or such longer term, if any, as may have been prescribed by the law for the punishment of the said act when committed by one person.
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liability for
with another
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30. An act done by a person in contemplation or Removal of furtherance of a trade dispute shall not be actionable on the interfering ground only that it induces some other person to break a contract of employment or that it is an interference with the trade, business, or employment of some other person, or with the right of some other person to dispose of his capital or his labour as he wills.
31. (1) Where, on complaint made by a member of a registered trade union, it is shown to the satisfaction of a magistrate that any officer or member of that union had in his possession or control any property of the union except in accordance with the rules of the union, or has unlawfully expended or withheld any money of the union, the magistrate shall, if he considers the justice of the case so requires, order such officer or member to deliver all such property to the committee of management of the union and to pay to them the money so unlawfully expended or withheld.
(2) A complaint made under subsection (1) shall not be entertained unless the magistrate is satisfied that the complainant is, on the date of that complaint, a member of the registered trade union in respect of the property of which such complaint is so made.
(3) Any person bound by an order made under sub- section (1) who fails to comply with the terms thereof and the directions given therein within a time to be specified in such order shall be liable to a fine of five hundred dollars.
(4) An order under subsection (1) shall not affect or prevent a prosecution of, or civil proceedings against, any such officer or member.
Penalty for money or
misuse of
property of
a registered
trade union.
tion or annoyance.
32. Any person who with a view to compel any other Intimida- person to abstain from doing or to do any act which such other person has a legal right to do or abstain from doing, wrongfully and without legal authority-
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