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Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974 (repealed 16.10.1992)

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3 Status of employers’associations.

(1) An employers’ association may be either a body corporate or an unincorporated association. (2) Where an employers’ association is unincorporated— (a) it shall be capable of making contracts; (b) all property belonging to the employers’ association shall be vested in trustees in trust for the association; (c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , it shall be capable of suing and being sued in its own name, whether in proceedings relating to property or founded on contract or tort or any other cause of action whatsoever; (d) proceedings for any offence alleged to have been committed by it or on its behalf may be brought against it in its own name; and (e) any judgment, order or award made in proceedings of any description brought against the employers’ association on or after the commencement of this section shall be enforceable, by way of execution, diligence, punishment for contempt or otherwise, against any property held in trust for the employers’ association to the like extent and in the like manner as if the association were a body corporate. (3) Any employers’ association which became a body corporate by virtue of section 74 of the 1971 Act shall cease to be a body corporate by virtue of that section at the expiration of the period of six months beginning with the commencement of this section and the provisions of section 19 below (as well as this section and section 4 below) shall apply to it on and after the expiration of that period, unless before the expiration of that period it has again become a body corporate. (4) Nothing in section 716 of the Companies Act 1985 (associations of over twenty members for certain purposes must be incorporated or otherwise formed in special ways) shall be taken to prevent the formation of an employers’ association which is neither registered as a company under that Act nor otherwise incorporated. (5) The purposes of an unincorporated employers’ association and, in so far as they relate to the regulation of relations between employers and workers or trade unions, the purposes of an employers’ association which is a body corporate, shall not, by reason only that they are in restraint of trade, be unlawful so as— (a) to make any member of the association liable to criminal proceedings for conspiracy or otherwise; or (b) to make any agreement or trust void or voidable; nor shall any rule of an unincorporated employers’ association or, in so far as it so relates, any rule of an employers’ association which is a body corporate be unlawful or unenforceable by reason only that it is in restraint of trade.

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3 Status of employers’associations.

(1) An employers’ association may be either a body corporate or an unincorporated association. (2) Where an employers’ association is unincorporated— (a) it shall be capable of making contracts; (b) all property belonging to the employers’ association shall be vested in trustees in trust for the association; (c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , it shall be capable of suing and being sued in its own name, whether in proceedings relating to property or founded on contract or tort or any other cause of action whatsoever; (d) proceedings for any offence alleged to have been committed by it or on its behalf may be brought against it in its own name; and (e) any judgment, order or award made in proceedings of any description brought against the employers’ association on or after the commencement of this section shall be enforceable, by way of execution, diligence, punishment for contempt or otherwise, against any property held in trust for the employers’ association to the like extent and in the like manner as if the association were a body corporate. (3) Any employers’ association which became a body corporate by virtue of section 74 of the 1971 Act shall cease to be a body corporate by virtue of that section at the expiration of the period of six months beginning with the commencement of this section and the provisions of section 19 below (as well as this section and section 4 below) shall apply to it on and after the expiration of that period, unless before the expiration of that period it has again become a body corporate. (4) Nothing in section 716 of the Companies Act 1985 (associations of over twenty members for certain purposes must be incorporated or otherwise formed in special ways) shall be taken to prevent the formation of an employers’ association which is neither registered as a company under that Act nor otherwise incorporated. (5) The purposes of an unincorporated employers’ association and, in so far as they relate to the regulation of relations between employers and workers or trade unions, the purposes of an employers’ association which is a body corporate, shall not, by reason only that they are in restraint of trade, be unlawful so as— (a) to make any member of the association liable to criminal proceedings for conspiracy or otherwise; or (b) to make any agreement or trust void or voidable; nor shall any rule of an unincorporated employers’ association or, in so far as it so relates, any rule of an employers’ association which is a body corporate be unlawful or unenforceable by reason only that it is in restraint of trade.

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