Article 5 Trade disputes

A dispute between staff employed to work at a school which has a governing body with a delegated budget and that governing body, which relates wholly or mainly to one or more of the matters set out in section 244(1) of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992^f1 shall be a trade dispute within the meaning of that Act but, in any case where there is a trade dispute only by virtue of the operation of this article, nothing in section 219 of that Act shall prevent an act from being actionable in tort where the inducement, interference or threat mentioned in that section relates to a contract the performance of which does not affect directly or indirectly the school over which the governing body in question exercises its functions.