PART 2THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN

General

Savings as to European Parliamentary elections81

1

Nothing in this Part makes it illegal for an employer to permit European Parliamentary electors or their proxies to absent themselves from his employment for a reasonable time for the purpose of voting at the poll at a European Parliamentary election without having any deduction from their salaries or wages on account of their absence, if the permission—

a

is (so far as practicable without injury to the employer’s business) given equally to all persons alike who are at the time in his employment, and

b

is not given with a view to inducing any person to record his vote for any particular registered party or individual candidate at the election, and

c

is not refused to any person for the purpose of preventing him from recording his vote for any particular registered party or individual candidate at the election,

but this paragraph shall not be construed as making illegal any act which would not be illegal apart from this paragraph.