Employment and Industrial Relations Act (Cap. 452)

Employment and Industrial Relations Act (Cap. 452), article 63

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63. (1) Subject to the provisions of sub-article (2), no action in tort or quasi-tort shall lie in respect of any act - (a) alleged to have been done by or on behalf of a trade union or by or on behalf of an employers’ association; or (b) alleged to be threatened or to be intended to be done as aforesaid, against the union or association in its own name, or against an y members, officers or officials of the union or association on b ehalf of themselves and all other memb ers of the union or association . (2) Sub-article (1) shall not affect the liability of a trade union or of an employers’ association to be sued in respect of the following, if not arising from any act done in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute, that is to say - (a) any negligence, nuisance or breach of duty, (whether imposed on them by any rule of law or by or under any enactment) resulting in personal injury to any person; or (b) without prejudice to paragraph ( a), breach of any duty so imposed in connection with the ownership, possession, control or use of property, whether movable or immovable. Acts in contemplation or furtherance of trade disputes. Amended by: V . 2011.51; XVI. 2012.9.

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