Statement by the Delegation of Norway in response to the presentation by the Secretary General of the Annual Evaluation Report on the Implementation of the 2004 OSCE Action Plan for the Promotion Of Gender Equality
The 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of the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974 (hereafter in this Act referred to as “the principal Act”) are hereby repealed, that is to say—
section 5 (rights of workers as to arbitrary or unreasonable exclusion or expulsion from trade union);
section 6 (provisions as to rules of trade unions and employers’ associations);
in 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”;
in section 29(3) (trade disputes relating to matters occurring outside Great Britain), the words from “so long as” onwards;
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For section 7 of the principal Act (right to terminate membership of trade union) there shall be substituted the following section:—
For 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:—
In section 30(1) of the principal Act (interpretation), in paragraph (c) of the definition of “union membership agreement”,— 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”.
for 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” and
for the word “appropriate” there shall be substituted the word “specified,”
After section 30(5) of the principal Act there shall be inserted the following subsection:—.
In paragraph 6(5) of Schedule 1 to the principal Act (cases where dismissal is to be regarded as fair) for the words " all the employees of that employer or all employees " there shall be substituted the words " employees for the time being " .
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In paragraph 6(9) of Schedule 1 to the principal Act (definitions), after the word " paragraph " there shall be inserted the words " unless the context otherwise requires, references to a trade union include references to a branch or section of a trade union, and " .
This Act may be cited as the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Amendment) Act 1976.
The principal Act and this Act may be cited together as the Trade Union and Labour Relations Acts 1974 and 1976.
Section 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.