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TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1927

TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1927 - LONG
TITLE

An Act to declare and amend the law relating to trade disputes and
trade unions, to regulate the position of civil servants and persons
employed by public authorities in respect of membership of trade
unions and similar organisations, to extend section five of the
Conspiracy, and Protection of Property Act, 1875, and for other
purposes connected with the purposes aforesaid.
[21st December 1927]
Ss.13 rep. by 1958 c.30 (NI) s.1

TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1927 - SECT
4
Provisions as to political fund.

4.(1) It shall not be lawful to require any member of a trade
union to make any contribution to the political fund of a trade
union unless he has at some time after the commencement of this
Act and before he is first after the thirty-first day of December,
nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, required to make such a
contribution 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fund and has not withdrawn the notice in manner hereinafter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; and every member of a trade union who has not delivered
such a notice as aforesaid, or who, having delivered such a notice,
has withdrawn it in manner hereinafter provided, shall be deemed for
the purposes of the Trade Union Act, 1913, to be a member who is
exempt from 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 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
sub-section to have withdrawn the notice as from the first day of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 sub-section, a notice may be delivered
personally or by any authorised agent and any 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.

(2) All contributions to the political fund of a trade 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
aforesaid, shall be carried to that fund, and no assets of a trade
union other than those forming part of the political fund shall be
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 sub-section
shall be void.

Subs.(3)(4) rep. by SLR (NI) 1952

(5) If the Registrar of Friendly Societies is satisfied, and
certifies, that rules for the purpose of complying with the
provisions of this section, or for the purposes of the Trade Union
Act, 1913, as amended by this Act, which require approval by the
said Registrar have been approved by a majority of the members of
a trade union voting for the purpose, by the executive or other
governing body of such a trade union, or by a majority of
delegates of such a trade union voting at a meeting called for the
purpose, the said Registrar may approve those rules and those rules
shall thereupon have effect as rules of the union notwithstanding
that the provisions of the rules of the union as to the alteration
of rules or the making of new rules have not been complied with:

Proviso rep. by SLR (NI) 1952

(6) Section sixteen of the Trade Union Act, 1871 (which provides
for the transmission to the Registrar of Friendly Societies of
annual returns by registered trade unions) shall apply to every
unregistered trade union so far as respects the receipts, funds,
effects, expenditure, assets and liabilities of the political fund
thereof.

Ss.57 rep. by 1958 c.30 (NI) s.1

TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1927 - SECT
8
Furnishing of returns, etc.

8.(1) Any trade union carrying on business in Northern Ireland and
being a trade union registered in Great Britain under the Trade
Union Acts, 1871 to 1927, (or being unregistered but required by
those Acts to furnish returns in Great Britain under section sixteen
of the Trade Union Act, 1871) shall, before the first day of June
in every year, transmit to the Registrar of Friendly Societies

(a)a copy, certified in such manner as the said Registrar may
require, of the general statement and other documents transmitted in
that year, in pursuance of the said section sixteen, to, and
recorded by, the officer acting as registrar for the purposes of
the said section in its application to Great Britain; and

(b)a statement setting forth, in relation to the business carried on
by the trade union in Northern Ireland, such particulars of the
receipts and expenditure of the trade union, and other information,
as the Registrar of Friendly Societies may require.

(2) Section sixteen of the Trade Union Act, 1871, shall apply to
every trade union carrying on business in Northern Ireland but
having its principal office outside the United Kingdom, so as to
require such trade union to transmit to the Registrar of Friendly
Societies, in relation to the business carried on in Northern
Ireland, such particulars of the receipts and expenditure of the
trade union, and other information, as the Registrar of Friendly
Societies may require; and until compliance has been effected on
behalf of such trade union with all requirements of the Trade Union
Acts, 1871 to 1917, or this Act which are applicable to such trade
union, it shall not be entitled in Northern Ireland to any of the
privileges of those Acts.

(3) Every trade union (not being a trade union registered in
Northern Ireland) carrying on business in Northern Ireland shall
furnish to the Registrar of Friendly Societies before the first day
of June in every year the names and addresses of some one or more
persons resident in Northern Ireland authorised to accept, on behalf
of the trade union, service of process and any notices required to
be served on the trade union.

Any process or notice required to be served on such trade union
shall be sufficiently served if addressed to any person whose name
has been so furnished as aforesaid, and left at or sent by post
to the address which has been so furnished.

(4) Section fifteen of the Trade Union Act Amendment Act, 1876,
shall apply in the case of any failure to transmit or furnish to
the Registrar of Friendly Societies any statement or other
information required to be transmitted or furnished to him by or
under this section.

TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1927 - SECT
9
Short title, construction and interpretation.

9.(1) This Act may be cited as the Trade Disputes and Trade Unions
Act (Northern Ireland), 1927, and shall be construed as one with
the Trade Union Acts, 1871 to 1917, and this Act and the Trade
Union Acts, 1871 to 1917, may be cited together as the Trade Union
Acts (Northern Ireland), 1871 to 1927.

Subs.(2) rep. by 1958 c.30 (NI) s.1; subs.(3) rep. by 1954 c.33
(NI) s.48(1) sch.; subs.(4) rep. by SLR (NI) 1952I HEREBY give
notice that I am willing, and agree, to contribute to thePolitical
Fund of the .

Address .

Membership number (if any) .

Second Schedule rep. by SLR (NI) 1952