SCHEDULES

F1SCHEDULE 1AN.I.COLLECTIVE BARGAINING: RECOGNITION

PART IIIN.I.CHANGES AFFECTING BARGAINING UNIT

Position where Court decides new unitN.I.

86.—(1) This paragraph applies if the Court decides under paragraph 85(1) that the support of the union(or unions) within the new unit needs to be assessed.N.I.

(2) The Court must decide these questions—

(a)whether members of the union (or unions) constitute at least 10 per cent of the workers constituting the new unit;

(b)whether a majority of the workers constituting the new unit would be likely to favour recognition of the union (or unions) as entitled to conduct collective bargaining on behalf of the new unit.

(3) If the Court decides one or both of the questions in the negative—

(a)the Court must issue a declaration that the bargaining arrangements, so far as relating to workers falling within the new unit, are to cease to have effect on a date specified by the Court in the declaration, and

(b)the bargaining arrangements shall cease to have effect accordingly.