Singapore legislation

Section 10

of Trade Disputes Act 1941

Section 10

Picketing

It shall not be unlawful for one or more persons acting on his or their own behalf or on behalf of a trade union or of an individual employer or firm in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute to attend at or near a house or place where a person resides or works or carries on business or happens to be or the approach to any such house or place —

(a)

merely for the purpose of peacefully obtaining or communicating information; or

(b)

merely for the purpose of peacefully persuading or inducing any person to work or abstain from working,except that if such person or persons so attends or attend in such numbers or otherwise in such manner as to be calculated —

(c)

to intimidate any person in that house or place;

(d)

to obstruct the approach to or exit from that house or place; or

(e)

to lead to a breach of the peace,such attending shall be unlawful and shall be deemed to constitute an offence under section 9(d).

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