Trade Union Act, 1871

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Definitions.

23. In this Act—

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In Scotland the term “misdemeanor” means a crime and offence.

[Definition of “trade union” [¹] except the following proviso rep. 39 & 40 Vict. c. 22. s. 16.]

Provided that this Act shall not affect—

1. Any agreement between partners as to their own business;

2. Any agreement between an employer and those employed by him as to such employment;

3. Any agreement in consideration of the sale of the good-will of a business or of instruction in any profession, trade, or handicraft.

[S. 24 rep. 46 & 47 Vict. c. 39. (S.L.R.)]

[¹ The repealing section substitutes the following definition:—“The term ‘trade “union’ means any combination, whether temporary or permanent, for regulating “the relations between workmen and masters, or between workmen and workmen, “or between masters and masters, or for imposing restrictive conditions on the “conduct of any trade or business, whether such combination would or would not, “if the principal Act had not been passed, have been deemed to have been an un- “lawful combination by reason of some one or more of its purposes being in “restraint of trade ”]