CO129-504-7 Illegal Strikes and Lock-outs Ordinance- 1927 21-3-1927 - 26-11-1927 — Page 36

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Trade Disputes

and Trade Unions.

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(2) There shall be added to section five of the A.D. 1927. Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act, 1875, the following provision, that is to say:-

"If any person employed by a local or other public authority wilfully breaks a contract of "service with that authority, knowing or having "reasonable cause to believe that the probable

consequence of his so doing, either alone or in "combination with others, will be to hinder or "prevent the discharge of the functions of the "authority, he shall be liable, on summary con- "viction, to a fine not exceeding ten pounds or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three "months."

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funds of trade

7. Without prejudice to the right of any person Restraint of having a sufficient interest in the relief sought to sue or application of apply for an injunction to restrain any application of unions, &c. in the funds of a trade union in contravention of the contraven provisions of this Act, such an injunction may be 20 granted at the suit or upon the application of the

Attorney-General.

In the application of this section to Scotland there shall be substituted therein for references to an injunction references to an interdict, and for the reference to the 25 Attorney-General a reference to the Lord Advocate.

tion of Act.

8. (1) This Act may be cited as the Trade Short title, Unions and Trade Disputes Act, 1927, and shall be construc- construed as one with the Trade Union Acts, 1871 to tion, inter- 1917, and this Act and the Trade Union Acts, 1871 to

pretation, 30 1917, may be cited together as the Trade Union Acts, repeal.

1871 to 1927.

(2) In this Act the expression "strike means the cessation of work by a body of persons employed acting in combination, or a concerted refusal, or a refusal 35 under a common understanding of any number of persons who are, or have been employed, to continue to work or to accept employment.

(3) This Act shall not extend to Northern Ireland. (4) The enactments mentioned in

mentioned in the Second 40 Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent

specified in the third column of that schedule.

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