1. A trade union (or trade unions) seeking recognition to be entitled to conduct collective bargaining on behalf of a group or groups of workers may make a request in accordance with this Part.N.I.
2.—(1) This paragraph applies for the purposes of this Part.N.I.
(2) References to the bargaining unit are to the group of workers concerned (or the groups taken together).
(3) References to the proposed bargaining unit are to the bargaining unit proposed in the request for recognition.
[F2(3A) References to an appropriate bargaining unit's being decided by the Court are to a bargaining unit's being decided by the Court to be appropriate under paragraph 19(2) or (3) or 19A(2) or (3).]
(4) References to the employer are to the employer of the workers constituting the bargaining unit concerned.
(5) References to the parties are to the union (or unions) and the employer.
3.—(1) This paragraph applies for the purposes of this Part.N.I.
(2) References to collective bargaining are to negotiations relating to pay, hours and holidays; but this has effect subject to sub-paragraph (3).
(3) If the parties agree matters as the subject of collective bargaining, references to collective bargaining are to negotiations relating to the agreed matters; and this is the case whether the agreement is made before or after the time when the Court issues a declaration, or the parties agree, that the union is (or unions are) entitled to conduct collective bargaining on behalf of a bargaining unit.
(4) Sub-paragraph (3) does not apply in construing paragraph 31(3).
(5) Sub-paragraphs (2) to (4) do not apply in construing paragraph 35 or 44 and in those paragraphs collective bargaining has the meaning given by Article 2(2) of the 1992 Order.