Trade Union Act, 1971

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CitationIR No. 33/1971


Number 33 of 1971


TRADE UNION ACT, 1971


ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Section

1.

Definitions.

2.

Grant of negotiation licence.

3.

Application to High Court.

4.

Expenses.

5.

Short title and collective citation.

SCHEDULE


Act Referred to

Trade Union Act, 1941

1941, No. 22


Number 33 of 1971


TRADE UNION ACT, 1971


AN ACT TO AMEND AND EXTEND THE TRADE UNION ACT, 1941 . [10th December, 1971.]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:

Definitions.

1.—In this Act—

“the Act of 1941” means the Trade Union Act, 1941 ;

“authorised trade union” has the meaning assigned to it by section 7 of the Act of 1941;

“the Congress” means the body known as the Irish Congress of Trade Unions;

“the Minister” means the Minister for Labour;

“trade union” has the same meaning as in the Trade Union Acts, 1871 to 1952.

Grant of negotiation licence.

2.—(1) Notwithstanding Part II of the Act of 1941 but subject to section 3 of this Act, a body of persons shall not be granted a negotiation licence under that Part unless it is a body which, in addition to fulfilling a condition specified in section 7 (1) (a) of the Act of 1941, fulfils the following conditions—

(a) that, not less than eighteen months before the date of the application for the negotiation licence it—

(i) notifies the Minister, the Congress and any trade union, of which any members of the body are members, of its intention to make the application,

(ii) causes to be published in at least one daily newspaper published in the State a notice in the prescribed form (within the meaning of the Act of 1941) of its intention to make the application, and

(iii) deposited and kept deposited with the High Court the appropriate sum, and

(b) that it shows to the satisfaction of the Minister that, both at a date not less than eighteen months before the date of the application for the negotiation licence and at the date of that application, it had not less than 500 members resident in the State.

(2) Where after the passing of this Act a trade union is formed consisting wholly or mainly of two or more authorised trade unions which have amalgamated and each of which, immediately before the amalgamation, had been the holder of a negotiation licence, subsection (1) of this section shall not apply to the grant of a negotiation licence to the trade union so formed.

(3) Sections 14 to 16 of the Act of 1941 shall apply in relation to a deposit made with the High Court under this Act as if the deposit were a deposit under the Act of 1941, and in the application of section 15 of the Act of 1941 in relation to a deposit made under this Act “the appropriate sum” shall have the...

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