Trade Union Act Amendment Act, 1876

Definition of “trade union.”

16. [Repeal of so much of 34 & 35 Vict. c. 31. s. 23, as defines “ trade union, ” except the qualifying proviso.] 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 unlawful combination by reason of some one or more of its purposes being in restraint of trade.