Part VIndustrial action
Requirement of ballot before action by trade union
229Voting paper
1
The method of voting in a ballot must be by the marking of a voting paper by the person voting.
2
The voting paper must contain at least one of the following questions—
a
a question (however framed) which requires the person answering it to say, by answering “Yes” or “No”, whether he is prepared to take part or, as the case may be, to continue to take part in a strike;
b
a question (however framed) which requires the person answering it to say, by answering “Yes” or “No”, whether he is prepared to take part or, as the case may be, to continue to take part in industrial action short of a strike.
3
The voting paper must specify who, in the event of a vote in favour of industrial action, is authorised for the purposes of section 233 to call upon members to take part or continue to take part in the industrial action.
The person or description of persons so specified need not be authorised under the rules of the union but must be within section 20(3) (persons for whose acts the union is taken to be responsible).
4
The following statement must (without being qualified or commented upon by anything else on the voting paper) appear on every voting paper—
“If you take part in a strike or other industrial action, you may be in breach of your contract of employment.”.