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Trade Disputes (Essential Services) Act

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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

SECTION

  1.  Power to proscribe trade unions or associations in certain cases, etc.
  2. Penallies for acts calculated to disrupt the economy.
  3. Restriction on formation of new trade unions or associations.
  4. Restriction on officials of proscribed organisations, etc.
  5. Special power to refer disputes to Industrial Arbitration Panel for settlement.
  6. Registration of property and indemnity.
  7. Interpretation.
  8. Short tille, suspension of certain provisions of Cap. T8. 

TRADE DISPUTES (ESSENTIAL SERVICES) ACT

An Act to empower the President to proscribe any trade union or association the
members of which are employed in any essential service if such union or association
has been engaged in industrial unrest or acts calculated to disrupt the
smooth running of any essential service.

[1975 No. 23.]

[21st May, 1976]

[Commencement.]

  1. Power to proscribe trade unions or associations in certain cases, etc.
(1) If the President is satisfied that any trade union or association any of the members of which are employed in any essential service-
(a) is or has been engaged in acts calculated to disrupt the economy or acts calculated to obstruct or disrupt the smooth running of any essential service; or
(b) has, where applicable, wilfully failed to comply with the procedure specified in the Trade Disputes Act in relation to the reporting and settlement of trade disputes,

[Cap. T8.]

he may by order published in the Federal Gazette proscribe the trade union or association
(in this Act referred to as “the proscribed organisation”) and the proscribed organisation
shall, as from the date of the order, cease to exist.

(2) Where a proscribed organisation is a trade union, the union shall, not later than fourteen days from the date of the order under subsection (1) of this section, surrender its certificate of registration to the Registrar of Trade Unions who shall forthwith cancel such registration.
(3) As from the commencement of an order under subsection (1) of this section, all properties (whether movable or immovable) of the proscribed organisation, whether held in the name of the organisation, or held by any person for or in trust for the organisation shall be forfeited to the Federal Government and shall vest in that Government free of encumberances without any further assurance apart from this subsection.

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