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TRADE DISPUTES ACT 1906

TRADE DISPUTES ACT 1906 - LONG TITLE

An Act to provide for the regulation of Trades Unions and Trade
Disputes.
[21st December 1906]
S.1 rep. by 1976 NI16 art.82(3) sch.7

TRADE DISPUTES ACT 1906 - SECT 2
Peaceful picketing.

2.(1) It shall be lawful for one or more persons, acting on their
own behalf or on behalf of a trade union or of an individual
employer or firm in contemplation 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.

Subs.(2) rep. by SLR 1927

S.3 rep. by 1976 NI16 art.82(3) sch.7

TRADE DISPUTES ACT 1906 - SECT 4
Prohibition of actions of tort against trade unions.

4.(1) An action against a trade union, whether of workmen or
masters, or against any members or officials thereof on behalf of
themselves and all other members of the trade union in respect of
any tortious act alleged to have been committed by or on behalf of
the trade union, shall not be entertained by any court.

(2) Nothing in this section shall affect the liability of the
trustees of a trade union to be sued in the events provided for
by the Trade Union Act, 1871, section nine, except in respect of
any tortious act committed by or on behalf of the union in
contemplation or in furtherance of a trade dispute.

TRADE DISPUTES ACT 1906 - SECT 5
Short title and construction.

5.(1) This Act may be cited as the Trade Disputes Act, 1906, and
the Trade Union Acts, 1871 and 1876, and this Act may be cited
together as the Trade Union Acts, 1871 to 1906.

(2) In this Act the expression "trade union" has the same meaning
as in the Trade Union Acts, 1871 and 1876, and shall include any
combination as therein defined, notwithstanding that such combination
may be the branch of a trade union.

(3) In this Act and in the Conspiracy and Protection of Property
Act, 1875, the expression "trade dispute" [has the same meaning as
in the Industrial Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1976], and the
expression "workmen" means all persons employed in trade or industry,
whether or not in the employment of the employer with whom a trade
dispute arises. ....