http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/52/section/1Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992An Act to consolidate the enactments relating to collective labour relations, that is to say, to trade unions, employers’ associations, industrial relations and industrial action.1992-07-16texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2026-05-11Expert Participation2026-04-07 Part I Trade UnionsChapter I Introductory Meaning of “trade union" Meaning of “trade union".1In this Act a “trade union” means an organisation (whether temporary or permanent)—awhich consists wholly or mainly of workers of one or more descriptions and whose principal purposes include the regulation of relations between workers of that description or those descriptions and employers or employers’ associations; orbwhich consists wholly or mainly of—iconstituent or affiliated organisations which fulfil the conditions in paragraph (a) (or themselves consist wholly or mainly of constituent or affiliated organisations which fulfil those conditions), oriirepresentatives of such constituent or affiliated organisations,and whose principal purposes include the regulation of relations between workers and employers or between workers and employers’ associations, or the regulation of relations between its constituent or affiliated organisations.Ss. 1, 5 applied (E.W.) (21.5.2001) by S.I. 2001/1185, art. 2, Sch. para. 126(viii)