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