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Employment Act 1980

1980 CHAPTER 42

An Act to provide for payments out of public funds towards trade unions’ expenditure in respect of ballots, for the use of employers’ premises in connection with ballots, and for the issue by the Secretary of State of Codes of Practice for the improvement of industrial relations; to make provision in respect of exclusion or expulsion from trade unions and otherwise to amend the law relating to workers, employers, trade unions and employers’ associations; to repeal section 1A of the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974; and for connected purposes.

[1st August 1980]

Extent Information

E1The extent provision of this Act as originally enacted was repealed (22.8.1996) by 1996 c. 18, ss. 242, 243, Sch. 3 Pt. I (with ss. 191-195, 202); see s. 21

Commencement Information

I1Act partly in force at Royal Assent see s. 21(2); Act wholly in force at 22.12.1980

Trade union ballots and Codes of PracticeE+W+S

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Exclusion from trade union membershipE+W+S

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Unfair dismissalE+W+S

F66. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .E+W+S

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F6S. 6 repealed (22.8.1996) by 1996 c. 18, ss. 242, 243, Sch. 3 Pt. I (with ss. 191-195, 202)

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F8(1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F9(2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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F9S. 8(2) repealed (22.8.1996) by 1996 c. 18, ss. 242, 243, Sch. 3 Pt. I (with ss. 191-195, 202)

F109. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .E+W+S

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F10S. 9 repealed (22.8.1996) by 1996 c. 18, ss. 242, 243, Sch. 3 Pt. I (with ss. 191-195, 202)

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MaternityU.K.

F1211 Notices to the employer.U.K.

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F12S. 11 repealed (10.6.1994) by 1993 c. 19, ss. 51, 52, Sch. 10; S.I. 1994/1365, art. 2, Sch. (with art. 3(1))

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F13S. 12 repealed (22.8.1996) by 1996 c. 18, ss. 242, 243, Sch. 3 Pt. I (with ss. 191-195, 202)

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F14S. 13 repealed (22.8.1996) by 1996 c. 18, ss. 242, 243, Sch. 3 Pt. I (with ss. 191-195, 202)

Other rights of employeesE+W+S

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F15S. 14 repealed (22.8.1996) by 1996 c. 18, ss. 242, 243, Sch. 3 Pt. I (with ss. 191-195, 202)

F1615. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .E+W+S

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Restrictions on legal liabilityE+W+S

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Miscellaneous and generalE+W+S

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F21S. 20 repealed (22.8.1996) by 1996 c. 18, ss. 242, 243, Sch. 3 Pt. I (with ss. 191-195, 202)

F2221. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .E+W+S

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F22S. 21 repealed (22.8.1996) by 1996 c. 18, ss. 242, 243, Sch. 3 Pt. I (with ss. 191-195, 202)

Section 20.

SCHEDULE 1U.K. Minor and Consequential Amendments

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1The text of Sch. 1 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in the Statutes in Force and, except as specified, does not reflect any amendments or repeals that may have been made prior to 1.2.1991

The Post Office Act 1969.E+W+S

F231E+W+S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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The Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974E+W+S

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The M1Employment Protection Act 1975U.K.

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F264E+W+S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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F275E+W+S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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F286E+W+S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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F297U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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The Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978E+W+S

F308E+W+S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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F38Sch. 1 para. 16 repealed (22.8.1996) by 1996 c. 17, ss. 45, 46, Sch. 3 Pt. I (with s. 38)

F3917E+W+S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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F39Sch. 1 para. 17 repealed (22.8.1996) by 1996 c. 17, ss. 45, 46, Sch. 3 Pt. I (with s. 38)

F4018E+W+S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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F40Sch. 1 para. 18 repealed (22.8.1996) by 1996 c. 17, ss. 45, 46, Sch. 3 Pt. I (with s. 38)

F4119E+W+S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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F48Sch. 1 para. 26 repealed (22.8.1996) by 1996 c. 17, ss. 45, 46, Sch. 3 Pt. I (with s. 38)

F4927E+W+S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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F49Sch.1 para. 27 repealed (22.8.1996) by 1996 c. 17, ss. 45, 46, Sch. 3 Pt. I (with s. 38)

F5028E+W+S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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F50Sch. 1 para. 28 repealed (22.8.1996) by 1996 c. 17, ss. 45, 46, Sch. 3 Pt. I (with s. 38)

F5129E+W+S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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F51Sch. 1 para. 29 repealed (22.8.1996) by 1996 c. 17, ss. 45, 46, Sch. 3 Pt. I (with s. 38)

30E+W+S[F52In paragraph 23(1) of Schedule 11 of the 1978 Act, for the words from “section 14” to “those provisions” there shall be substituted the words “ sections 31 and 32 of the Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973 (powers of Crown Court in relation to fines and forfeited recognisances) shall have effect as if ”.]

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F5432E+W+S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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F54S. 32 repealed (30.8.1993) by 1993 c. 19, s. 51, Sch.10; S.I. 1908, art. 2(1), Sch.1.

F5533E+W+S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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F56 SCHEDULE 2E+W+S

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F56Sch. 2 repealed (22.8.1996) by 1996 c. 18, ss. 242, 243, Sch. 3 Pt. I (with ss. 191-195, 202)

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