10. Picketing
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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, or acting on his or their own behalf or on behalf of a platform work association or of an individual platform operator in contemplation or furtherance of a work 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 —
trade dispute
“trade dispute” means any dispute between employers and employees or between employees and employees, or between employers and employers which is connected with the employment or non-employment, or the terms of employment or the conditions of labour, of any person.
merely for the purpose of peacefully obtaining or communicating information; or
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 —
to intimidate any person in that house or place;
intimidate
“intimidate” means to cause in the mind of a person a reasonable apprehension of injury to him or to any member of his family or to any of his dependants or of violence or damage to any person or property;
to obstruct the approach to or exit from that house or place; or
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).