4Trade union contracts: When not enforceable

4 Trade union contracts: When not enforceable

[Section 4 Amended by 25 Geo. V No. 78 ]

(1)  Nothing in this Act shall enable any court to entertain any legal proceeding instituted with the object of directly enforcing or recovering damages for the breach of any agreement –

(a) between members of a trade union as such concerning the conditions on which any members of such trade union shall or shall not sell their goods, transact business, employ, or be employed;

(b) for the payment by any person of any subscription or penalty to a trade union;

(c) for the application of the funds of a trade union –

(i) to provide benefits to members;

(ii) to furnish contributions to any employer or workman, not a member of such trade union, in consideration of such employer or workman acting in conformity with the rules or resolutions of such trade union; or

(iii) to discharge any fine imposed upon any person by sentence of a court; or

(d) made between one trade union and another; or any bond to secure the performance of any of the above-mentioned agreements.

(2)  Nothing in this section shall render any of the above-mentioned agreements unlawful.