The Employment Code of Practice (Trade Union Ballots on Industrial Action) Order 1991

Made: 12th April 1991

Now, therefore, the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powerconferred on him by section 12(6) of the 1990 Act, hereby makes thefollowing Order:—

Citation

1

This Order may be cited as the Employment Code of Practice (TradeUnion Ballots on Industrial Action) Order 1991.

Appointed day for revised Code of Practice

2

The said revised Code of Practice on trade union ballots onindustrial action shall come into effect on 20th May 1991.

Signed

Signed by order of the Secretary of State.

Eric Forth — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, — Department of Employment — 12th April 1991

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order appoints 20th May 1991 as the day upon which the revisedCode of Practice on trade union ballots on industrial action which isbeing issued by the Secretary of State under section 12 of theEmployment Act 1990 comes into effect. The Code was originally issued inApril 1990, and has been revised in order to bring it into conformitywith changes made by the Employment Act 1990 to the law relating totrade union ballots on industrial action.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1980 c. 42; section 3(1) was amended by section 18(1) of theEmployment Act 1988 (c. 19) to enable the Secretary of State to issueCodes of Practice containing such practical guidance as he thinks fitfor the purpose of promoting what appear to him to be desirablepractices in relation to the conduct by trade unions of ballotsandelections.

[^f00002]: 1990 c. 38.