Trade Disputes (Amendment) Bill

by inserting, immediately after the definition of “award”, the following definition: —“ “industrial action” means —

any act or omission by a body of persons employed in any trade or industry, acting in combination or under a common understanding, which would result in any limitation or restriction on, or delay in, the performance of any duties connected with their employment; or

a strike, that is to say, the cessation of work by a body of persons employed in any trade or industry acting in combination, or a concerted refusal, or a refusal under a common understanding of a number of persons who are, or who have been so employed, to continue to work or to accept employment;”; and

by deleting the definition of “strike”.

by deleting the words “A strike” in the first line of subsection (1) and substituting the words “An industrial action”;

by deleting the word “strikers” in paragraph (a) of subsection (1) and substituting the words “persons taking part in the industrial action”; and

by deleting the word “strikes” in the marginal note and substituting the words “industrial action”.

by deleting the words “strike” and “strikes” wherever they appear in the following provisions and in the marginal notes thereto and substituting in each case the words “industrial action”: —Sections 5(1), 6, 7 and 8(1);

by deleting the words “five hundred dollars” wherever they appear in the following provisions and substituting in each case the words “two thousand dollars”: —Sections 5(1), 9 and 11; and

by deleting the words “two thousand dollars” wherever they appear in the following provisions and substituting in each case the words “five thousand dollars”: —Sections 5(2), 6, 7 and 8(2).