Clause 10

by inserting, immediately after subsection (1) of section 27, the following subsection:“(1A) A registered trade union the majority of whose membership consists of employees in non-managerial or non-executive positions shall not commence, promote, organise or finance any strike or any form of industrial action in connection with any trade dispute between members employed in managerial or executive positions and represented by it under section 30B of the Industrial Relations Act (Cap. 136) and their employer.”;

by inserting, immediately after the words “subsection (1)” in section 27(2), the words “or (1A)”;

by inserting, immediately after subsection (3) of section 27, the following subsections:“(3A) No member of a registered trade union who is employed in a managerial or an executive position and who is represented by the trade union under section 30B of the Industrial Relations Act (Cap. 136) shall commence, promote, organise, participate or otherwise act in furtherance of any strike or any form of industrial action taken by the trade union.(3B) No member of a registered trade union the majority of whose membership consists of employees in non-managerial or non-executive positions shall commence, promote, organise, participate or otherwise act in furtherance of any strike or any form of industrial action in connection with any trade dispute between members employed in managerial or executive positions and represented by the trade union under section 30B of the Industrial Relations Act and their employer.(3C) Nothing in subsection (1A) or (3B) shall preclude a registered trade union referred to in those subsections or any of its members employed in non-managerial or non-executive positions from commencing, promoting, organising, financing, participating or otherwise acting in furtherance of any strike or any form of industrial action affecting those members in accordance with subsection (1).(3D) Any member of a registered trade union who contravenes subsection (3A) or (3B) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $2,000.”;

by deleting the word “or” at the end of section 27(4)(a);

by deleting the comma at the end of paragraph (b) of section 27(4) and substituting the word “; or”, and by inserting immediately thereafter the following paragraph:“(c)taken in contravention of subsection (3A) or (3B),”;

by deleting subsection (8) of section 27 and substituting the following subsection:“(8) For the purposes of this section —

“industrial action” means the adoption of any practice, procedure or method in the performance of work which would result in a limitation on output or production in any occupation, service, trade, industry or business; and

where the majority of the membership of a registered trade union consists of employees in non-managerial or non-executive positions, the consent of its members employed in managerial or executive positions and represented by it under section 30B of the Industrial Relations Act (Cap. 136) shall not be taken into account in ascertaining whether the consent of the majority of the members have been obtained under subsection (1).”; and

by inserting, immediately after subsection (1) of section 39, the following subsection:“(1A) Notwithstanding subsection (1), where the majority of the membership of a registered trade union consists of employees in non-managerial or non-executive positions, no rule of the trade union shall confer on any member who is employed in a managerial or an executive position the right to vote in any secret ballot taken for the purpose of obtaining the consent of its members to commence, organise, participate or otherwise act in furtherance of any strike or any form of industrial action under section 27(1).”.