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EnactedRoyal Assentc. 15

Trade Union Act 2016

This bill became lawView the statute on acthub →c. 15 · 05 May 2016

Bill texts 7

  • Bill 58 2015-16 (as introduced)Bill · 15 Jul 2015download soon
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Amendments 34

Report stage — Lords 20

AgreedClause 10EditBillBody

leave out subsections (3) to (5)

Moved: Lord BurnsSponsor: Lord Tyler, Lord Cormack, Baroness Drake#1257
WithdrawnClause 11EditBillBody

leave out lines 35 to 42 and insert— The union’s return for that year under section 32 shall include such information as may be specified by the Secretary of State in regulations made by statutory instrument, following consultation with the Certification Officer.

Moved: Lord BurnsSponsor: Lord Tyler, The Earl of Kinnoull, Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde#1259
AgreedClause 10EditBillBody

leave out lines 5 to 42 and insert— A person who, after the transition period, joins a trade union that has a political fund at the time the person joins shall, on the trade union membership form (whether paper or electronic), be asked whether or not the person wishes to contribute to the political fund, and informed that the decision shall not affect any other aspects of the person’s membership.

Moved: Lord BurnsSponsor: Lord Tyler, Lord Cormack, Baroness Drake#1260
AgreedClause 3EditBillBody

leave out from “are” to end of line 10 and insert “at the relevant time normally engaged in the provision of important public services, unless at that time the union reasonably believes this not to be the case.”

Moved: Baroness Neville-Rolfe#1261
AgreedClause 4EditBillBody

leave out “reasonably detailed indication” and insert “summary”

Moved: Baroness Neville-Rolfe#1262
AgreedClause 7EditBillBody

leave out line 9 and insert “subsection (4), for paragraph (b) substitute— ending with the 14th day before the starting date, or the seventh day before that date if the union and the employer so agree.

Moved: Baroness Neville-Rolfe#1263
AgreedClause 8EditBillBody

leave out from “period” to end of line 20 and insert “, beginning with the date of the ballot— of six months, or

Moved: Baroness Neville-Rolfe#1264
AgreedClause 9EditBillBody

leave out “a badge, armband or other item” and insert “something”

Moved: Baroness Neville-Rolfe#1265
NotMovedClause 11EditBillBody

leave out lines 43 to 45 and insert— The Secretary of State may by regulations made by statutory instrument amend subsection (1) by substituting a different amount, which may not be less than £2,000, for the amount for the time being specified in that subsection.

Moved: Baroness Neville-Rolfe#1266
AgreedClause 3AddClauseOrSchedule

Insert the following new Clause— “Electronic balloting

Moved: Lord KerslakeSponsor: Lord Stoneham of Droxford#1278
NotMovedClause 3EditBillBody

leave out “important” and insert “essential”

Moved: Lord MendelsohnSponsor: Lord Stoneham of Droxford#1285
NotMovedClause 3EditBillBody

leave out lines 13 and 14 and insert— In subsection (2B) “essential public services” means services the interruption of which would endanger the life, personal safety or health of the whole or part of the population.”

Moved: Lord MendelsohnSponsor: Lord Stoneham of Droxford#1286
NotMovedClause 3EditBillBody

at end insert— The power to make regulations under subsection (2D) ceases to have effect after the first such regulations have been approved by each House of Parliament.”

Moved: Lord Stoneham of DroxfordSponsor: Baroness Burt of Solihull, Lord Mendelsohn#1287
NotMovedClause 4EditBillBody

leave out from “must” to end of line 36 and insert “state the trade dispute to which the proposed industrial action relates”

Moved: Lord MendelsohnSponsor: Lord Stoneham of Droxford#1288
NotMovedClause 9EditBillBody

leave out lines 17 to 19

Moved: Lord Stoneham of DroxfordSponsor: Baroness Burt of Solihull, Lord Mendelsohn#1289
NotMovedClause 9DeleteClauseOrSchedule

Leave out Clause 9

Moved: Lord MendelsohnSponsor: Lord Stoneham of Droxford#1290
NotMovedClause 10DeleteClauseOrSchedule

Leave out Clause 10

Moved: Lord Stoneham of DroxfordSponsor: Baroness Burt of Solihull#1291
WithdrawnClause 11EditBillBody

leave out from “union” to “exceeds” in line 34 and insert “paid out of its political fund in any calendar year”

Moved: Lord Leigh of Hurley#1292
NotMovedClause 11EditBillBody

after “expenditure” insert “paid out of the union’s political fund”

Moved: Lord Leigh of Hurley#1293
NotMovedClause 11EditBillBody

leave out lines 40 to 42 and insert— For the purposes of subsection (2)—

Moved: Lord Leigh of Hurley#1294

3rd reading — Lords 14

AgreedClause 12EditBillBody

leave out lines 7 to 17 and insert— This section applies where the expenditure of a trade union paid out of its political fund in any calendar year exceeds £2,000 in total.

Moved: Baroness Neville-Rolfe#1710
AgreedClause 12EditBillBody

leave out lines 18 to 20 and insert— The Secretary of State may by regulations made by statutory instrument amend subsection (1) by substituting a different amount, which may not be less than £2,000, for the amount for the time being specified in that subsection.

Moved: Baroness Neville-Rolfe#1711
AgreedClause 12EditBillBody

at end insert— In this section “candidate”, “electors” and “political office” have the same meaning as in section 72.”

Moved: Baroness Neville-Rolfe#1712
AgreedClause 13EditBillBody

after “regulations” insert “made by statutory instrument”

Moved: Baroness Neville-Rolfe#1713
AgreedClause 13EditBillBody

leave out “partly” and insert “mainly”

Moved: Baroness Neville-Rolfe#1714
AgreedClause 13EditBillBody

leave out from beginning to second “shall” and insert “No regulations containing provision made by virtue of subsection (9) shall be made unless a draft of the statutory instrument containing them has been laid before Parliament and approved by a resolution of each House. Regulations under this section to which subsection (12) does not apply”

Moved: Baroness Neville-Rolfe#1715
AgreedClause 14EditBillBody

leave out lines 16 and 17 and insert— A relevant public sector employer may make deductions from its workers’ wages in respect of trade union subscriptions only if—

Moved: Baroness Neville-Rolfe#1716
AgreedClause 14EditBillBody

leave out “partly” and insert “mainly”

Moved: Baroness Neville-Rolfe#1717
AgreedClause 14EditBillBody

leave out lines 5 to 7 and insert— ““trade union subscriptions” means payments to a trade union in respect of a worker’s membership of the union;”

Moved: Baroness Neville-Rolfe#1718
AgreedClause 15AddClauseOrSchedule

Insert the following new Clause— “Certification Officer not subject to ministerial direction

Moved: Baroness Neville-Rolfe#1719
AgreedSchedule 4EditBillBody

leave out paragraph 1 and insert— Omit section 24C and sections 24ZH to 24ZK of the 1992 Act (which are superseded by the inserted Schedule set out in Schedule 1 to this Act).

Moved: Baroness Neville-Rolfe#1720
AgreedSchedule 4EditBillBody

at end insert— In section 256 of the 1992 Act (procedure before the Certification Officer), in subsection (1)(c), for the words after “declaration or” substitute “order under section 24B, 32ZC, 45C, 55, 72A, 80, 82 or 103 or under paragraph 5 of Schedule A3”.”

Moved: Baroness Neville-Rolfe#1721
AgreedSchedule 4EditBillBody

leave out paragraphs 19 and 20

Moved: Baroness Neville-Rolfe#1722
WithdrawnClause 12EditBillBody

Leave out subsection (2E)

Moved: Lord Collins of Highbury#1733