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Employment Act 1980
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16 Picketing.E+W+S
(1)For section 15 of the 1974 Act there shall be substituted—
“15 Peaceful picketing.
(1)It shall be lawful for a person in contemplation or futherance of a trade dispute to attend—
(a)at or near his own place of work, or
(b)if he is an official of a trade union, at or near the place of work of a member of that union whom he is accompanying and whom he represents,
for the purpose only of peacefully obtaining or communicating information, or peacefully persuading any person to work or abstain from working.
(2)If a person works or normally works—
(a)otherwise than at any one place, or
(b)at a place the location of which is such that attendance there for a purpose mentioned in subsection (1) above is impracticable,
his place of work for the purposes of that subsection shall be any premises of his employer from which he works or from which his work was administered.
(3)In the case of a worker who is not in employment and whose last employment was terminated in connection with a trade dispute, subsection (1) above shall in relation to that dispute have efect as if any reference to his place of work were a reference to his former place of work.
(4)A person who is an official of a trade union by virtue only of having been elected or appointed to be a representative of some of the members of the union shall be regarded for the purposes of subsection (1) above as representing only those members ; but otherwise an official of a trade union shall be regarded for those purposes as representing all its members.”
(2)Nothing in section 13 of the 1974 Act shall prevent an act done in the course of picketing from being actionable in tort unless it is done in the course of attendance declared lawful by section 15 of that Act.
(3)In subsection (2) above “tort” has as respects Scotland the same meaning as in the 1974 Act.
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C1The text of s. 16(1) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in the Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals that may have been made prior to 1.2.1991
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