The Trade Union and Labour Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 No. 1980 (NI. 12)

PART III N.I. ELECTIONS FOR CERTAIN POSITIONS

Requirements to be satisfied with respect to elections N.I.

Candidates N.I.

13.—(1) No member of the trade union shall be unreasonably excluded from standing as a candidate.

(2) No candidate shall be required, directly or indirectly, to be a member of a political party.

(3) A member of a trade union shall not be taken to be unreasonably excluded from standing as a candidate if he is excluded on the ground that he belongs to a class of which all the members are excluded by the rules of the union.

But a rule which provides for such a class to be determined by reference to whom the union chooses to exclude shall be disregarded.