127 Corporate or quasi-corporate status of employers’ associations.E+W+S
(1)An employers’ association may be either a body corporate or an unincorporated association.
(2)Where an employers’ association is unincorporated—
(a)it is capable of making contracts;
(b)it is capable of suing and being sued in its own name, whether in proceedings relating to property or founded on contract or tort or any other cause of action; and
(c)proceedings for an offence alleged to have been committed by it or on its behalf may be brought against it in its own name.
(3)Nothing in section 716 of the M1Companies Act 1985 (associations of over 20 members to be incorporated or otherwise formed in special ways) shall be taken to prevent the formation of an employers’ association which is neither registered as a company under that Act nor otherwise incorporated.