http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1976/7Trade Union and Labour Relations (Amendment) Act 1976 (repealed 16.10.1992)An Act to repeal (in whole or in part), replace or amend sections 5, 6, 7, 8, 13, 29 and 30 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974 and paragraph 6 of Schedule 1 to that Act and to provide for a charter on matters relating to the freedom of the press.1980-08-01texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2011-05-271992-10-16 1976 c. 71The following provisions and passages of the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974 (hereafter in this Act referred to as “the principal Act”) are hereby repealed, that is to say—asection 5 (rights of workers as to arbitrary or unreasonable exclusion or expulsion from trade union);bsection 6 (provisions as to rules of trade unions and employers’ associations);cin section 8(6) (power of Registrar of Friendly Societies to remove name of organisation from list of trade unions or list of employers’ associations), the words “or that its rules do not comply with the provisions of this Act”;din section 29(3) (trade disputes relating to matters occurring outside Great Britain), the words from “so long as” onwards;e. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231For section 7 of the principal Act (right to terminate membership of trade union) there shall be substituted the following section:—7In every contract of membership of a trade union, whether made before or after the passing of this Act, there shall be implied a term conferring a right on the member, on giving reasonable notice and complying with any reasonable conditions, to terminate his membership of the union.2For section 13(1) of the principal Act (inducing or threatening breach of contract of employment in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute) there shall be substituted the following subsection:—1An act done by a person in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute shall not be actionable in tort on the ground only—athat it induces another person to break a contract or interferes or induces any other person to interfere with its performance; orbthat it consists in his threatening that a contract (whether one to which he is party or not) will be broken or its performance interfered with, or that he will induce another person to break a contract or to interfere with its performance.3In section 30(1) of the principal Act (interpretation), in paragraph (c) of the definition of “union membership agreement”,—afor the words “of requiring the terms and conditions of employment of every employee of that class to include a condition that he must” there shall be substituted the words “in practice of requiring the employees for the time being of the class to which it relates (whether or not there is a condition to that effect in their contract of employment) to” andbfor the word “appropriate” there shall be substituted the word “specified,”and at the end of that definition there shall be inserted the words “and references in this definition to a trade union include references to a branch or section of a trade union; and a trade union is specified for the purposes of, or in relation to, a union membership agreement if it is specified in the agreement or is accepted by the parties to the agreement as being the equivalent of a union so specified”.4After section 30(5) of the principal Act there shall be inserted the following subsection:—5AFor the purposes of this Act employees are to be treated, in relation to a union membership agreement, as belonging to the same class if they have been identified as such by the parties to the agreement, and employees may be so identified by reference to any characteristics or circumstances whatsoever..5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41This Act may be cited as the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Amendment) Act 1976.2The principal Act and this Act may be cited together as the Trade Union and Labour Relations Acts 1974 and 1976.3Section 1(e) above and subsections (3), (5) and (6) of section 3 above shall not apply in relation to a case where a person is dismissed and the effective date of termination falls before the passing of this Act.Act repealed (16.10.1992) by Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (c. 52), s. 300(1), Sch. 1.The text of ss. 1(a)–(d) and 3(1)–(4) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and, does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.19911974 c. 52. S. 1(e) repealed by Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978 (c. 44, SIF 43:1), Sch. 15 para. 9, Sch. 17S. 2 repealed by Employment Act 1980 (c. 42, SIF 43:5), s. 20(2), Sch.2The text of ss. 1(a)–(d) and 3(1)–(4) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and, does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991S. 3(5)(6) repealed by Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978 (c. 44, SIF 43:1), Sch. 15 para. 9, Sch. 17