HL Deb 03 November 1975 vol 365 cc883-4

[Nos. 17 to 20]

Clause 45, page 36, line 27, leave out from ("a") to end of line 28 and insert ("specified union. (4A) For the purposes of this section a trade union—

  1. (a) shall be taken to be 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; and
  2. (b) shall also be treated as so specified if—
    1. (i) the Service has made a recommendation for recognition of that union covering the employee in question which is operative within the meaning of section 15 above; or
    2. (ii) subject to subsection (4B) below, the union has referred a recognition issue covering that employee to the Service under section 11 above and it has not withdrawn the reference, or from the reference, and the issue has not been settled or reported on under section 12 above.
(4B) Subsection (4A)(b)(ii) above shall not apply where the reference is such a reference as is described in section 12(2) above on which, in accordance with that subsection, the Service declines to proceed.")

The Commons agreed to this Amendment but proposed the following Amendments thereto:—

In subsection (4A)(b)(ii) leave out ("subject to subsection (4B) below")

In subsection (4A)(b)(ii),line 3, leave out ("it") and insert (the Service has not declined to proceed on the reference under section 12 above, the union")

In subsection (4A)(b)(ii) leave out from beginning of line 6 to the end of subsection (4B) and insert ("that section")

Lord JACQUES

My Lords, I beg to move that this House doth agree with the Commons in their Amendments Nos. 18 to 20 inclusive to the Lords Amendment No. 17. These are drafting Amendments which I anticipated might be necessary during the Third Reading of the Bill in this Chamber.

Moved That this House doth agree with the Commons in their Amendments Nos. 18 to 20 inclusive to Lords Amendment No. 17.—(Lord Jacques.)

On Question, Motion agreed to.