Affliation outside the Colony.
Proceful picketing.
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being of such trade union shall or shall not sell their goods, transact business, employ or be employed;
(6) any agreement for the payment by any person of any sub-
scription or penalty to a trade union;
(c) any agreement for the application of the funds of a trade
union-
() to provide benefits for members; or
(ii) to furnish contributions to any employer or workman not a member of such trade union, in consideration of such employer or workman acting in conformity with the rules or resolutions of such trade union; or
(iii) to discharge any fine imposed on any person by sentence of a court of justice; or
(d) any agreement made between one trade union and another:
or
(e) any bond to secure the performance of any of the above
mentioned agreements,
but nothing in this section shall be deemed to constitute any of the above mentioned agreements unlawful.
45, (1) Except with the consent of the Governor in Council, no registered trade union shall be a member of any kind of any trade union or other organization of what nature or kind soever that is established outside the Colony. Such consent, if given, may be with- drawn at the discretion of the Governor in Council.
(2) A registered trade union that contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and sbali be liable to a fine of five hundred dollars.
PART VI.
Picketing, Intimidation and Conspiracy.
46. Notwithstanding anything in this Ordinance, it shall be lawful for one or more persons, acting on their own behalf or on behalf of a registered trade union or of an individual employer or figu, in con- templation or furtherance of a trade dispute, to attend at or near a house or place where a person resides or works or carries on business or happens to be, if they so attend merely for the purpose of peacefully obtaining or communicating information or of peacefully persuading any person to work or abstain from working:
Provided that it shall not be lawful if they so attend in such numbers, or otherwise in such manner, as to be calculated to intimidate any person in that house or place, or to obstruct the approach thereto
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or egress therefrom, or to lead to a breach of the peace, and any person who acts in contravention of this proviso shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine of one thousand dollars and to imprison- ment for six months.
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47. (1) Every person who, with a view to compelling any person Intimidation to abstain from doing or to do any act that such other person has a and annoy. legal right to do or abstain from doing, wrongfully and without legal authority-
(a) uses violence to or intimidates such other person or his wife
or children, or injures his property; or
(b) persistently follows such other person about from place to
place: or
(c) hides any tools, clothes or other property owned or used by such other person, or deprives him of the same or hinders him in the use thereof; or
(d) watches or besets the house or other place where such other person resides or works or carries on business or happens to be or the approach to such house or place; or
(e) follows such other person in a disorderly manner in or through
any street or road,
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine of one thousand dollars and to imprisonment for six months.
(2) Attending at or near any house or place in such numbers, or otherwise in such manner, as is by the provise to section 46 declared to be unlawful shall be deemed to be a watching or besetting of that house or place within the meaning of this section.
48. (1) An agreement or combination of two or more persons to Conspiracy do or procure to be done any act in contemplation or furtherance of a in relation trade dispute shall not be triable as a conspiracy if such act committed disputes. by one person would not be punishable as a crime.
(2) An act done in pursuance of an agreement or combination by two or more persons shall, if done in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute, not be actionable unless the act, if done without any such agreement or combination, would be actionable.
(3) Nothing in this section shall exempt from punishment any person guilty of a conspiracy for which a punishment is awarded by any enactment in forme in the Colony.
(4) Nothing in this section shall affect the law relating to riot, unlawful assembly, breach of the peace or sedition or any offence against the State or the Sovereign.
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